Henri Chapu

Henri Michel Antoine Chapu ( born September 29, 1833 in Le MÃ © -sur -Seine, Seine- et- Marne Dépt; . † April 21, 1891 in Paris) was a French sculptor and medalist.

Chapu was a student at the École des beaux -arts (now ENSBA ); his teachers included the sculptor James Pradier and Francisque Joseph Duret and the painter Léon Cogniet. With 22 years Chapu was the occasion of the major exhibition of the Paris Salon debut in 1855 and one of his works was there also awarded the "Prix de Rome ". Connected with the price was also a scholarship for a study trip to Italy.

Later he was entrusted with the decoration of the staircase of the Chamber of Commerce in his hometown. Chapu created for the statue of mechanics. In the same style is also the statue of the cantata with which he adorned the main entrance of the Opéra de Paris. The still image of the lawyer Pierre -Antoine Berryer front of the Palace of Justice was also created by Chapu.

One of his last works was the monument to Jean Cousin, which in 1880 was the birthplace of Sens in order.

Henri Michel Chapu died in 1891 at the age of 57 years in Paris.

Awards

Reception

A large part of his artistic work focuses on quite allegorically ancient mythology and puts them so lovingly with the present in terms.

Works (selection)

Mercury, who invents the caduceus. , 1863.
The kneeling Jeanne d' Arc in Domremy
The sower. , 1865.
The transformation of the Klythia in a sunflower. In 1867.
The statue of the youth for a monument of the painter Jean Baptiste Regnault
The personification of the idea for the tomb of the Countess d' Agoult