Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume
Photograph by Eugène Pirou
Gracchi
, Musée d'OrsayJean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume (4 July 1822, Montbard – 1 March 1905, Rome) was a French sculptor.
Biography
He was born at Montbard on the Côte-d'Or. He studied under Cavelier, Millet, and Barrias, at the École des Beaux-Arts, which he entered in 1841, and where he gained the prix de Rome in 1845 with Theseus finding on a rock his father's sword. He became director of the École des Beaux-Arts in 1864, and director-general of Fine Arts from 1878 to 1879, when the office was suppressed.[1]
Guillaume was a prolific writer, principally on sculpture and
Royal Academy, London, 1869, on the institution of that class.[1]
Works
Many of his works have been bought for public galleries, and his monuments are to be found in the public squares of the chief cities of France. At
church of St Clotilde, Paris. The Musée d'Orsay in Paris hosts Les Gracques (1853).[1]
References
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Guillaume, Jean Baptiste Claude Eugène". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 692.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eugène Guillaume.
- Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
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