Emmanuel Frémiet

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Emmanuel Frémiet
Emmanuel Frémiet
Born(1824-12-06)6 December 1824
Paris, France
Died10 September 1910(1910-09-10) (aged 85)
Paris, France
Known forSculpture
MovementAnimalier

Emmanuel Frémiet (6 December 1824 – 10 September 1910) was a French sculptor. He is famous for his 1874 sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris (and its "sister" statues in Philadelphia and Portland, Oregon) and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in Suez. The noted sculptor Pierre-Nicolas Tourgueneff was one of many students who learned sculpture under the tutelage of Frémiet.[1][2]

Early life

Born in Paris, he was a nephew and pupil of

Salon a study of a Gazelle, and after that date worked prolifically. His Wounded Bear and Wounded Dog were produced in 1850, and the Luxembourg Museum at once secured this striking example of his work.[4]

Career

Frémiet's Jeanne d'Arc, Paris

In the 1850s, Frémiet produced various Napoleonic works. He first exhibited in the Paris Salon at the age of nineteen with a sculpture of an Algerian gazelle.

Napoleon III, none of which have survived.[6]

He produced his equestrian statue of

Pan and the Bear Cubs, also acquired by the Luxembourg Museum and now in the Musée d'Orsay
.

In 1887 he exhibited his Gorilla Carrying off a Woman which won him a medal of honour at the

Salon. It depicts a large primate with a spear wound in his shoulder, carrying a still-alive female victim and a stone weapon. This sculpture divided critics at the time but is now recognised as one of his most significant works.[7]

Of the same character is his

Legion of Honor in 1878, he became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1892, and succeeded Antoine-Louis Barye as professor of animal drawing at the Natural History Museum of Paris.[4]

Frémiet died on 10 September 1910 in Paris and was buried in the Cimetière de Louveciennes.

References

  1. ISBN 0-88740-629-7
    ., accessed: 10 October 2015
  2. ^ "L'Atelier Pierre Turgenev". Tourgueneff.free.fr. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  3. RKD
  4. ^ a b c Chisholm 1911, p. 97.
  5. ^ Mackay, James, The Animaliers, E.B. Button and Co., Inc., 1973
  6. ^ Fusco, Peter and H. W. Janson, editors, The Romantics to Rodin, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980, p. 272
  7. ^ "National Gallery Victoria". National Gallery Victoria.
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