Jules Dalou

{"Id":22,"Name":"Jules Dalou","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EDALOU, JULES (1838-1902),\u003C/strong\u003E French sculptor, was the pupil of \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=629\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECarpeaux\u003C/a\u003E [1827-1875] and \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=Duret\u0026role=\u0026nation=\u0026prev_page=1\u0026subjectid=500020530\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EDuret\u003C/a\u003E [1804-1865], and combined the vivacity and richness of the one with the academic purity and scholarship of the other. He is one of the most brilliant virtuosos of the French school, admirable alike in taste, execution and arrangement. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1867, but when. in 1871 the troubles of the Commune broke out in Paris, he took refuge in England, where he rapidly made a name through his appointment at South Kensington. Here he laid the foundation of that great improvement which resulted in the development of the modern British school of sculpture, and at the same time executed a remarkable series of terra-cotta statuettes and groups, such as \u003Cu\u003EA French Peasant Woman\u003C/u\u003E (of which a bronze version under the title of \u003Cu\u003EMaternity\u003C/u\u003E is erected outside the Royal Exchange), the group of two Boulogne women called \u003Cu\u003EThe Reader\u003C/u\u003E and \u003Cu\u003EA Woman of Boulogne tallying her Beads\u003C/u\u003E. He returned to France in 1879 and produced a number of masterpieces. His great relief of \u003Cu\u003EMirabeau replying to M. de Dreux-Brz\u003C/u\u003E, exhibited in 1883 and now at the Palais Bourbon, and the highly decorative panel, \u003Cu\u003ETriumph of the Republic\u003C/u\u003E, were followed in 1885 by \u003Cu\u003EThe Procession of Silenus\u003C/u\u003E. For the city of Paris he executed his most elaborate and splendid achievement, the vast monument, \u003Cu\u003EThe Triumph of the Republic\u003C/u\u003E, erected, after twenty years work, in the Place de la Nation, showing a symbolical figure of the Republic, aloft on her car, drawn by lions led by Liberty, attended by Labor and Justice, and followed by Peace. It is somewhat in the taste of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09371a.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ELouis XIV.\u003C/a\u003E [1638-1715] period, ornate, but exquisite in every detail. Within a few days there was also inaugurated his great \u003Cu\u003EMonument to Alphand\u003C/u\u003E (1899), which almost equalled in the success achieved the monument to \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=48\u0022 target=\u0022link\u0022\u003EDelacroix\u003C/a\u003E [1798-1863] in the Luxembourg Gardens. Dalou, who gained the Grand Prix of the International exhibition of 1889, and was an officer of the Legion of Honor, was one of the founders of the New Salon (Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts), and was the first president of the sculpture section. In portraiture, whether statues or busts, his work is not less remarkable.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://97.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DA/DALOU_JULES.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":52}