Antoine-Augustin Préault

Antoine-Augustin Préault (October 6th, 1809 - January 11th, 1879) was a French sculptor pertaining to the romantic movement. Born in Paris in the district from the Marsh, and wire of Augustin Pierre François Préault and Marie Sophie Joséphine Sheep, it is often called Auguste Préault.

Raise David of Angers, it exposed initially to the Living room of Paris in 1833. He was not well seen by some people who belonged to the elite of the artistic community because of her outspokenness and her participation in the Révolution of July. For this period of disorder the studio of Préault was vandalisé and much of its plaster models were destroyed. Because of these circumstances its work was mainly left in the shade by its contemporaries.

Died in Paris in 1879 it is buried with the Father-Lachaise. Three of its most known sculptures are:

Christ on the Cross (1840) - Church Saint-Gervais, Paris.
Ophélie (1843) - Museum of Orsay, Paris
Slaughter (1854) - Museum of the Art schools, Chartres

Artist vigorous and full with heat, he is also the author of the Begging , Hécube , the Abbot of the Sword , Clémence Isaure , Peace , the War , André Chénier , silence …

References

Charles W. Millard, Auguste Préault: romantic sculptor , (1997) ISBN Gallimard

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