Auguste Ottin

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Auguste Ottin, c.1865. Photograph by Nadar
Polyphemus Surprising Acis and Galatea, (1866), the Fontaine Médicis, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris)

Auguste-Louis-Marie Jenks Ottin (1811–1890) was a French academic sculptor and recipient of the decoration of the Legion of Honor.

Early life

Ottin was born and died in Paris, where he was a pupil of

École des Beaux Arts. Ottin was a friend of Théodore Chassériau, a pupil in the atelier of Ingres, who in 1833 produced a black chalk portrait of Ottin. (Presented to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in 2006.) Ottin obtained the Grand Prix de Sculpture at the Concours of 1836 with his statue of "Socrate Buvant la Ciguë.".[1]

Exhibitions

Campaspe taking off her clothes in front of Apelles (1883). North façade of the Cour Carrée in the Louvre palace, Paris.

Ottin was responsible for the assembly in 1834 of the vast

Grand Prix de Rome for a sculpture of Socrates drinking the draft. One vestige of his Roman sojourn of 1836-1840 is a View of Rome, 1837, in graphite and watercolor, at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.[3]

His portrait bust of the painter and Director of the Academy,

École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
, Paris.

Ottin exhibited in 1841 a bust in marble, and afterward produced a group of "Hercules Presenting to Eurysthea the Apples of Hesperides," in marble; busts of Chaptal, Quesnault, Ingres, (1842); and Ecce Homo, in marble, (1844).[1] His 1846 "Indian Hunter Surprised by a Boa" in bronze resulted in the awarding of a medal and was a featured piece under the center dome of the New York Crystal Palace in 1853,[4] and was later mounted at Fontainebleau Chateau outside Paris.

His Travail manuel is at the

Louis-Philippe
.

About the same time he was commissioned to provide the sculptural elements for a room in an old palazzo in Florence, via de’ Renai, that was designed as an homage to the social utopian Charles Fourier by an admirer of his philosophy, François Sabatier-Unger, who had recently wed the palazzo's owner, the Austrian singer, Caroline Unger.

During the Second Empire, he executed a full-length official sculpture of

Acis
. His Pan and Diana in marble accompany the group.

In the new Square Emile-Chautemps at Le Sentier, Paris IIIème, among the sculptural figures enhancing two oval pools under the general artistic direction of Gabriel Davioud, Ottin was entrusted with seated bronze figures of Mercury and Music.[5]

In the extensive sculptural programme of the Palais Garnier for the Opera, Ottin was entrusted with La Musique and La Danse seated figures leaning on a central medallion in the arched pediment on the west-facing facade. He also provided standing females representing northern French cities for the less-demanding programme of the Gare du Nord[6] Among similar commissions are his statues of Euthymenes and Pytheas for the Bourse, Marseille.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Obituary, "August Louis Marie Ottin," New York Times, January 11, 1891
  2. ^ Christie's New York, Eduardo Guinle collection, 2003; Walters Collection, Baltimore Archived August 24, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1987.2.32.
  4. ^ Art and Industry: As Represented in the Exhibition at the Crystal Palace; Greeley, Horace; Redfield; (New York, 1853); p. 59
  5. ^ Mercure and La Musique Archived May 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ^ Gare du Nord Archived May 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ^ Euthymenes and Pytheas

Further reading

External links

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