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from Auction House Records.
A RARE SILVER, IVORY, GEM-SET AND PORPHYRE ROUGE D'EGYPTE MODEL OF LA
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 Louis-Ernest Barrias (13 April 1841 – 4 February 1905) was a French sculptor of the Beaux-Arts* school.
He was born in Paris into a family of artists. His father was a porcelain-painter, and his older brother Félix-Joseph Barrias a well-known painter. Louis-Ernest also started out as a painter, studying under Léon Cogniet, but later took up sculpture with Pierre-Jules Cavelier as teacher.
In 1858 he was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts* in Paris, where his teacher was François Jouffroy. In 1865 Barrias won the Prix de Rome* for study at the French Academy in Rome.
Barrias was involved in the decoration of the Paris Opéra and the Hôtel de la Païva in the Champs-Élysées. His work was mostly in marble, in a Romantic realist style indebted to Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
In 1878 he was made a knight of the Legion of Honour, an officer in 1881, and a commander in 1900.
Barrias replaced Dumont at the Institut de France in 1884 then succeeded Cavelier as professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1900-03 he served on the Council for the National Museums. Among his students were Josep Clarà, Charles Despiau, Henri Bouchard, and Victor Segoffin.
LOCATIONS WORKS
At the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise:
• Tomb of Thomas Couture (c. 1879)
• Tomb of Anatole de La Forge (1893)
At the Jardin des Tuileries:
• The Oath of Spartacus (1869, illustrated)
At La Défense:
• La Défense (bronze) Monument to the defenders of Paris in 1870 (1880 - 1883) The plaster model was shown at the Paris salon of 1881.
At the Musée d'Orsay:
• Nature Unveiling Herself before Science (1899)
• Bust of Henri Regnault (1871)
• Nubian Alligator Hunters (1893 - 1894)
At Dreux:
• Funeral monument of the duchesse d'Alençon.[1]
In private collections:
• First Mourning, Adam and Eve carrying Abel (1878)
• Fame (c. 1893)
Source:
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Ernest_Barrias
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