Auguste Clésinger
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Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger (22 October 1814 – 5 January 1883) was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter.
Life
Auguste Clésinger was born in
Clésinger has resolved this problem of making beauty without cuteness, without affectation, without mannerism, with a head and a body of our own time, in which can be recognised his mistress if she is beautiful.
Clésinger also portrayed Sabatier as herself, in an 1847 marble sculpture now in the Musée d'Orsay.
He produced busts of
At the death of the composer-pianist Frédéric Chopin on 17 October 1849, Clésinger made Chopin's death mask and a cast of his hands. He also sculpted, in 1850, the white marble funerary monument of Euterpe, the muse of music, for Chopin's grave at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris.
Clésinger died in Paris on 5 January 1883. He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery (division 10). His heir was his model and mistress Berthe de Courrière.
Selected works
- 1847 : Woman Bitten by a Serpent, marble, Musée d'Orsay
- 1848 : Bacchante, a variation after the Woman bitten by a serpent, marble, Musée du Petit-Palais
- 1847 : Louise of Savoy, stone statue, Jardin du Luxembourg
- 1857 : Battle of the Roman bulls, painted plaster, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon
- 1857 : The infant Hercules strangling the serpents of Envy, bronze, Musée d'Orsay
- 1869 : Nereid groupe en marbre, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'archéologie de Besançon
- 1854 : Sappho, plaster, Musée municipal de Châlons-en-Champagne
- 1865 : Femme à la rose, bronze, Musée d'Orsay
Biblical art
He produced life-size statues for the side chapels of the
Notes and references
External links
- Biographies of Auguste Clésinger
- Musée de la Vie romantique, Hôtel Scheffer-Renan, Paris
- Les amis de George Sand
- Auguste Clésinger in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website