Emmanuel Fremiet

{"Id":175,"Name":"Emmanuel Fremiet","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EFREMIET, EMMANUEL\u003C/strong\u003E (1824-1910), French sculptor, born in Paris, was a nephew and pupil of \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=460\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ERude\u003C/a\u003E; he chiefly devoted himself to animal sculpture and to equestrian statues in armour. His earliest work was in scientific lithography (osteology), and for a while he served in times of adversity in the gruesome office of painter to the Morgue. In 1843 he sent to the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/sa/Salon.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ESalon\u003C/a\u003E a study of a Gazelle, and after that date was very prolific in his works. His \u003Cu\u003EWounded Bear\u003C/u\u003E and \u003Cu\u003EWounded Dog\u003C/u\u003E were produced in 1850, and the Luxembourg Museum at once secured this striking example of his work. From 1855 to 1859 Fremiet was engaged on a series of military statuettes for Napoleon III. He produced his equestrian statue of Napoleon I in 1868, and of Louis d\u0027Orleans in 1869 (at the Ch\u0026acirc;teau de Pierrefonds) and in 1874 the first equestrian statue of \u003Cem\u003EJoan of Arc\u003C/em\u003E, erected in the Place des Pyramides, Paris; this he afterwards (1889) replaced with another and still finer version. In the meanwhile he had exhibited his masterly \u003Cem\u003EGorilla and Woman\u003C/em\u003E which won him a medal of honor at the Salon of 1887. Of the same character, and even more remarkable, is his \u003Cem\u003EOurang-Outangs and Borneo Savage\u003C/em\u003E of 1895, a commission from the Paris Museum of Natural History. Fremiet also executed the statue of \u003Cu\u003ESt Michael\u003C/u\u003E for the summit of the spire of the Eglise St Michel, and the equestrian statue of \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=132\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EVel\u0026aacute;zquez\u003C/a\u003E for the Jardin de l\u0027Infante at the Louvre. He became a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts in 1892, and succeeded \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=266\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EBarye\u003C/a\u003E as professor of animal thawing at the Natural History Museum of Paris.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://2.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FR/FREMIET_EMMANUEL.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":7}