Théophile Bra

Théophile François Marcel Bra
Born	(1797-06-23)June 23, 1797 Douai
Died	1863
Nationality	French
Occupation	Sculptor

Théophile François Marcel Bra (23 June 1797,

and an admirer of Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism.

Life

From a family that had been sculptors for four generations, Bra studied art in Paris. He won second prize in the

in Paris.

Works

His marble and plaster sculptures are numerous, in Douai's Musée de la Chartreuse, Paris churches and the museums at Versailles,

.

• Allegory of the besieged city of Lille, on the Column of the Goddess in Lille
• Christ on the cross and the Virgin and Child, at the église Sainte-Catherine in Lille
• Pediment of the Hôpital-Général de Douai
• Bust of
  Château de Versailles
• Bust of Mme Mention, née Emilie Michel, bronze,
  Musée de la vie romantique
  , Paris.
• Statue of an androgynous angel,
  Balzac to create the character of conte Séraphita in one of his 1835 Études philosophiques in La Comédie humaine
  .
• Bronze statue of
  François Broussais, 1840, second courtyard of the Military Hospital at Val-de-Grâce
  .
• One of the bas-reliefs on the base of the Column of the Grande Armée, Wimille - 1840
• Bronze statue from the Column of the Goddess in the Place du Général-de-Gaulle, Lille.

Publications

• The Drawing speaks : Théophile Bra : Works 1826-1855, Exhibition Catalogue, The Menil Collection, Houston, 1999, with contributions by Jacques de Caso, Hubert Damisch, André Bigotte.
• Théophile Bra, L'Evangile rouge, edited by Jacques de Caso, Paris, Gallimard, 2000.
• Sang d'encre - Théophile Bra, un illuminé romantique, Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, 2007. Contributions by Jacques de Caso, Hubert Damisch, Pierre-Jacques Lamblin, Daniel Marchesseau, with Françoise Baligand, André Bigotte, Marie-Claude Sabouret.