Eugène Delaplanche

Eugène Delaplanche, ( born February 28, 1836 in Belleville (now Paris ), † 10 January 1891 in Paris ) was an especially during the Second Empire successful French sculptor.

Life

As a pupil of the sculptor Francisque Joseph Duret, he won the Prix de Rome and the associated privilege to reside 1864-1867 in Rome at the Villa Medici.

Delaplanche excited by his first work, a willingness forming on a turtle child and a shepherd attention that increased when he 's a little rough, but healthy naturalistic been summarized Eva exhibited in 1870 after the Fall.

Among the later works found in particular the Saint Agnes, the marble statue of the message of love, the marble group The maternal education, the Virgin with the lily and the statue of the music because of the perfect truth of nature in the form of treatment acclaim.

Delaplanche further been involved in the decoration of public buildings with plastic jewelry, such as the parish churches of St- Eustache and St- Joseph -des -Nations in Paris, who was then under construction, Paris Opera by Charles Garnier - for which he also in 1881 the seated figure of the composer Daniel -François- Esprit Auber (1881 ) created - and built for the Universal exhibition of 1878 Palais du Trocadéro, which was located at today's Palais de Chaillot location.

A year before his death, the artist in the Salon of 1890, the highly regarded, for the Cathedral St- André in Bordeaux certain monument to the Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux François- Auguste -Ferdinand Donnet ( 1795-1882 ).

Delaplanche died in 1891 at the age of 55 years in Paris. He is buried in the Cimetière du Père - Lachaise in Paris.

Honors and Awards

Selections

  • Child riding on a turtle ( Enfant sur ​​une tortue monté ), Salon 1866, Marseille, Musée des beaux -arts
  • Eve after the Fall ( Eve après la chute ), marble sculpture, 1867/69, Paris, Musée d' Orsay
  • The terrace ( La Terrasse ), about 1872, Sopraporte for the foyer of the Opéra Garnier, original in situ, plaster model in the Musée d' Orsay
  • La Charpente (), ca 1872, Sopraporte for the foyer of the Opéra Garnier, original in situ, plaster model in the Musée d' Orsay
  • Saint Agnes ( Sainte Agnes ), marble statue, 1873, Paulhan (Languedoc -Roussillon ), Church of Ste -Croix de Paulhan
  • The maternal education ( L'Education maternelle ) - 1873, Paris, Square Samuel Rousseau
  • Holy Virgin with the lily ( Vierge au Lys), marble statue, 1874 /78 Paris, Musée d' Orsay
  • Saint Joseph ( Saint Joseph ), marble statue, 1875, signed, 100 x 60 cm, Boulogne -sur -Mer ( Nord-Pas -de- Calais ), Notre- Dame-de- l'Immaculée - Conception
  • Allegory of Music ( Allégorie de la Musique ), Salon 1877, silvered bronze
  • The Sacred Heart appearing to the saint Marguerite -Marie Alacoque (L' Apparition du Sacré - Cœur à Sainte -Marguerite -Marie Alacoque ), marble sculpture, 1878, Boulogne -sur -Mer ( Nord-Pas -de- Calais ), Notre-Dame -de- l'Immaculée - Conception
  • Africa (L' Afrique ), created 1877/78 for the former Palais de Tokyo, today on the esplanade of the Musée d' Orsay.
  • Aurora ( Aurore ), 1884, marble statue after the 1882 Paris Salon exhibited plaster model. Paris, Archives nationales
  • Circé, Montpellier, Musée Fabre
  • Eve before the Fall ( Eve avant la chute ), marble sculpture, 1890 /91 Paris, Musée d' Orsay
  • Holy Family ( Sainte Famille ), Paris, Church of St- Jacques-des -Nations
  • Allegory of the air ( Allégorie de l' Air), bronze, Compiègne, Musée Antoine Vivenel
  • Allegory of Water ( Allégorie de l' Eau ), bronze, Compiègne, Musée Antoine Vivenel
Belleville (Paris) Second French Empire France Charles Garnier (architect) Exposition Universelle (1878) Trocadéro
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