Laurent Marqueste

Laurent Marqueste ( born June 12, 1848 in Toulouse, † April 5, 1920 in Paris) was a French sculptor. As a pupil of François Jouffroy and Alexandre Falguière he was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1871. As a result, he was from 1872 and 1875 to study at the Villa Medici. From the year 1874 took Marqueste regularly at the Salons and the World Exhibitions, where he presented his works. He remained in his work the classical traditions faithfully and is therefore classified as a neo-baroque artists. After he got back in the 1870s numerous awards for his work, he won the Paris World Exposition in 1889 a gold medal. At the Universal Exhibition of 1900, he won the Grand Prix. The reputation which he had acquired with these awards, earned him public contracts, especially from the municipality of Paris, a. He designed allegories, mythological groups and historical portraits that stand to this day in the Tuileries, the Jardin du Luxembourg, in front of the City Hall of Paris or on the Pont Alexandre III. In 1900, he also created the sculpture for the grave of his teacher Alexandre Falguière in the cemetery Cimetière du Père -Lachaise cemetery. Between 1893 and 1900 worked Laurent Marqueste a professor at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris.

Works

  • La Flagellation You Christ ( bas-relief, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux -arts, 1871, winner in the competition for the Prix de Rome )
  • L'Art ( Place de l' Hôtel- de -Ville, Paris IV, 1874)
  • Velleda ( Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, 1877, an exhibit at the Salon in 1877 )
  • Monument to Ferdinand Fabre (Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, 1880)
  • Henri IV ( Musée Condé, Chantilly, 1880)
  • Cupidon ( Musée d' Orsay, Paris, exhibit at the Salon in 1882 )
  • La France de Louis XIV ( Pont Alexandre III, Paris, 1887-1900 )
  • Persée et la Gorgone (marble, Musée des Beaux -Arts, Lyon, 1890)
  • Monument to Barye ( Square Barye, Paris, 1894)
  • Statue de la Géographie ( Sorbonne, Paris, 1901)
  • Victor Hugo ( Sorbonne, Paris, 1901)
  • Monument to Waldeck -Rousseau (Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, 1909)
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