Aime Millet
See also: Millet
Aimé Millet is a Sculpteur and painter French, born with Paris the September 28th 1819 and dead the January 14th 1891.
He is the son of Frederic Millet miniaturist born with Charlieu in 1796 and died in Paris the October 20th 1859. He is also the uncle of Louis Julian Millet, born in 1856 with New York and deceased in 1923, which was a famous Architecte with Chicago. He does not have however family ties with Jean-François Millet, painter famous of the Angelus .
Biography:
Aimé Millet is pupil with the college of Versailles then studies at the royal School of drawing (which will become the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of decorative Arts). He works some time in the sculptor bronzier Desbœufs. In 1836, it is received first with the École of the Art schools of Paris. In 1840, it starts to produce its first works carved after having carried out drawings and paintings, it is however regarded as a minor painter. Aimé Millet is named professor at the School of decorative Arts in February 1870, it will have as pupils in particular Louis Majorelle, Berthe Morisot, François Pompon. He was the friend of the sculptor Pierre Louis Rouillard and receives the Légion of honor in 1859. He dies in Paris the January 14th 1891 and is buried with the Cimetière of Montmartre.
works
Many sculptures are visible in Paris, in province and also some abroad.
Among its famous works:
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the monumental statue of Vercingétorix, order of Napoleon III, set up on the site of Alésia.
- Apollo, Poetry and the Music , on the roof of the Opera of Paris, between 1860 and 1869
- South America , pig iron, carried out for the World Fair of Paris of 1878, currently on the square of the Museum of Orsay, series of the five continents.
- Cassandre is put under the protection of Pallas , Jardin of Tileries, 1877
- François-Rene de Chateaubriand , bronze Statue, 1875 (Malo Saint)
Source
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External bond
- Complete listing of its works
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