Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguiere

{"Id":151,"Name":"Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguiere","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EFALGUIERE, JEAN ALEXANDRE JOSEPH (1831-1900)\u003C/strong\u003E, French sculptor and painter, was born at Toulouse. A pupil of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/ec/Ecoledes.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003E\u0026iuml;\u0026iquest;\u0026frac12;cole des Beaux Arts\u003C/a\u003E he won the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/pr/PrixdeRo.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EPrix de Rome\u003C/a\u003E in 1859; he was awarded the medal of honour at the Salon in 1868 and was appointed officer of the Legion of Honour in 1878. His first bronze statue of importance was the \u003Cu\u003EVictor of the Cock-Fight\u003C/u\u003E (1864), and \u003Cu\u003ETarcisus the Christian Boy-Martyr\u003C/u\u003E followed in 1867; both are now in the Luxembourg Museum. His more important monuments are those to Admiral Courbet (1890) at Abbeville and the famous \u003Cu\u003EJoan of Arc\u003C/u\u003E. Among more ideal work are \u003Cu\u003EEve\u003C/u\u003E (1880), \u003Cu\u003EDiana\u003C/u\u003E (1882 and 1891), \u003Cu\u003EWoman and Peacock\u003C/u\u003E, and \u003Cu\u003EThe Poet\u003C/u\u003E, astride his Pegasus spreading wings for flight. His \u003Cu\u003ETriumph of the Republic\u003C/u\u003E (1881\u0026iuml;\u0026iquest;\u0026frac12;1886), a vast quadriga for the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, is perhaps more amazingly full of life than others of his works, all of whichreveal this quality of vitality in superlative degree. To these works should be added his monuments to \u003Cu\u003ECardinal Lavigerie\u003C/u\u003E and \u003Cu\u003EGeneral de La Fayette\u003C/u\u003E (the latter in Washington), and his statues of \u003Cu\u003ELamartine\u003C/u\u003E (1876) and \u003Cu\u003ESt Vincent de Paul\u003C/u\u003E (1879), as well as the \u003Cu\u003EBalzac\u003C/u\u003E, which he executed for the Soci\u0026iuml;\u0026iquest;\u0026frac12;t\u0026iuml;\u0026iquest;\u0026frac12; des gens de lettres on the rejection of that by \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=143\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ERodin\u003C/a\u003E; and the busts of \u003Cu\u003ECarolus-Duran\u003C/u\u003E and \u003Cu\u003ECoquelin cadet\u003C/u\u003E (1896). Falgui\u0026iuml;\u0026iquest;\u0026frac12;re was a painter as well as a sculptor, but somewhat inferior in merit. He displays a fine sense of colour and tone, added to the qualities of life and vigour that he instils into his plastic work. His \u003Cu\u003EWrestlers\u003C/u\u003E (1875) and \u003Cu\u003EFan and Dagger\u003C/u\u003E (1882; a defiant Spanish woman) are in the Luxembourg, and other pictures of importance are \u003Cu\u003EThe Beheading of St John the Baptist\u003C/u\u003E (1877), \u003Cu\u003EThe Sphinx\u003C/u\u003E (1883), \u003Cu\u003EAcis and Galatea\u003C/u\u003E (1885), \u003Cu\u003EOld Woman and Child\u003C/u\u003E (1886) and \u003Cu\u003EIn the Bull Slaughter-House\u003C/u\u003E. He became a member of the Institute (Acad\u0026iuml;\u0026iquest;\u0026frac12;mie des Beaux-Arts) in 1882. He died in 1900.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ESee L\u0027honce B\u0026iuml;\u0026iquest;\u0026frac12;n\u0026iuml;\u0026iquest;\u0026frac12;dite, \u003Cu\u003EAlexandre Falgui\u0026iuml;\u0026iquest;\u0026frac12;re, Librairie de l\u0026iuml;\u0026iquest;\u0026frac12;art\u003C/u\u003E (Paris).\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://96.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FA/FALGUIERE_JEAN_ALEXANDRE_JOSEPH.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":9}