Jules-Clément Chaplain

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Jules-Clément Chaplain
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Monument to Octave Gréard by Henri Paul Nénot and Jules-Clément Chaplain.

Jules-Clément Chaplain (12 July 1839 – 13 July 1909) was a French sculptor and one of its finest medallists. With

Louis Oscar Roty (1846–1911) he helped found the Art Nouveau
movement.

Chaplain was born in

Légion d'honneur
.

Chaplain was responsible for the official portraits of every president of the

Nicholas II of Russia
was called "a masterpiece and one of the finest ever struck."

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