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FALGUIERE, See also:JEAN See also:ALEXANDRE See also:JOSEPH (1831-1900) , See also:French sculptor and painter, was See also:born at See also:Toulouse. A See also:pupil of the Ecole See also:des See also:Beaux Arts he won the Prix de See also:Rome in 1859; he was awarded the See also:medal of See also:honour at the See also:Salon in 1868 and was appointed officer of the See also:Legion of Honour in 1878. His first See also:bronze statue of importance was the " See also:Victor of the See also:Cock-Fight " (1864), and " Tarcisus the See also:Christian Boy-See also:Martyr " followed in 1867; both are now in the Luxembourg Museum. His more important monuments are those to See also:Admiral See also:Courbet (189o) at See also:Abbeville and the famous " See also:Joan of Arc." Among more ideal See also:work are " See also:Eve " (188o), " See also:Diana " (1882 and 1891), " Woman and See also:Peacock," and " The Poet," astride his See also:Pegasus spreading wings for See also:flight. His " See also:Triumph of the See also:Republic " (1881-1886), a vast See also:quadriga for the Arc de Triomphe, See also:Paris, is perhaps more amazingly full of See also:life than others of his See also:works, all of which reveal this quality of vitality in superlative degree. To these works should be added his monuments to " See also:Cardinal See also:Lavigerie " and " See also:General de La Fayette " (the latter in See also:Washington), and his statues of " Lamartine " (1876) and " St See also:Vincent de See also:Paul " (1879), as well as the " See also:Balzac," which he executed for the Societe des gens de lettres on the rejection of that by See also:Rodin; and the busts of " Carolus-See also:Duran "• and " See also:Coquelin See also:cadet " (1896). Falguiere was a painter as well as a sculptor, but somewhat inferior in merit. He displays a See also:fine sense of See also:colour and See also:tone, added to the qualities of life and vigour that he instils into his plastic work. His " Wrestlers " (1875) and " See also:Fan and See also:Dagger " (1882; a defiant See also:Spanish woman) are in the Luxembourg, and other pictures of importance are " The See also:Beheading of St See also:John the Baptist " (1877), " The See also:Sphinx " (1883), " See also:Acis and Galatea " (1885), " Old Woman and See also:Child " (1886) and " In the See also:Bull Slaughter-See also:House." He became a member of the See also:Institute (Academie des Beaux-Arts) in 1882. He died in 'goo. See Leonce Benedite, Alexandre Falguiere, Librairie de fart (Paris).

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