Antonin Mercié
Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (October 30th 1845 - December 13rd 1916), sculptor and painter French, was born with Toulouse. It enters to the École of the Art schools of Paris, and receives the lessons of Alexandre Falguière and François Jouffroy. In 1868, it gains the Prix of Rome. Its first great successes are David and Gloria Victis , presented to the Salon of Paris of 1872 when they receive the medal of honor. Bronze David is one of the most known works. The hero of the Bible is shown naked, with the head of Goliath to his feet, like the '' David '' of Donatello, but it carries a turban and rengaine its sword. This Bronze will be then exposed in the Square Montholon in Paris. Many copies exist, of which certain include/understand a mask-sex. The original is with the Musée of Orsay.
the Genius of arts (1877), a Low-relief, is with the Tuileries, to replace the Napoleon III of Antoine-Louis Barye. A similar work for the tomb of Jules Michelet (1879) is with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise. The same year, Mercié carves the statue of Arago and the low-reliefs associated, visible from now on with Perpignan.
In 1882, it Nevertheless renews the patriotic success obtained in 1874 with the bronze of Gloria Victis with a group! , whose copies were placed at Belfort and in the garden of the Tuileries. Two works indeed point out the Franco-German Guerre of 1870. the Memory (1885), a marble statue for the tomb of Madam Charles Ferry, is one of its most successful works. Regret , for the tomb of Alexandre Cabanel, was carved in 1892, just like the Guillaume Tell , today with Lausanne.
Mercié also designed the monuments with Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1895), set up in the garden of Infante in Louvre and Louis Faidherbe (1896) in Lille, a statue of Adolphe Thiers located at Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, the monument with Paul Baudry with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise and that of Louis-Philippe and of the queen Amélie for their burial in the royal Chapelle of Dreux. Its group hones of it the Justice is with the Town hall of Paris. Many other statues, busts or medallions of its hand made it possible Mercié to gain a medal of Honor at the time of the World Fair of 1878 and the Grand Prix to that of 1889. Among the paintings reported on the artist are a Venus with which it obtained a medal with the Living room in 1883, Léda (1884), and Michel-Angel studied the anatomy (1885), its most expressive work on the matter.
Mercié is named Professor Drawing and of Sculpture at the School of Beautiful arts and elected official member of the French Academy in 1891.
It will be high with the rank of large officer in the order of the Légion of honor and will become in 1913 president of the Société of the French artists.
He dies in Paris in 1916.
Some works.
- Gloria Victis (Glory with Overcome), 1875, bronzes, Paris, Musée of the Small-Palate, hall.
- David , 1871, bronzes, Paris Musée of Orsay.
External bonds
- Biography by Smithsonian
- Art Renewal Center
- Photographs of works of Antonin Mercié
- victorious David of Goliath - an example of cast iron of edition
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