Charles Henri Joseph Rope-maker

Charles Henri Joseph Cordier (born the October 19th 1827 with Cambric, dead the April 30th 1905 with Algiers) is a French sculptor.

He entered in 1846 to the school of beautiful arts of Paris, where he had as Masters Jacques Auguste Fauginet and François Rude. As it showed soon of interest and talent to represent the various human races, the French government sent it in Africa. Consequently, it produced a great quantity of Eastern statues and in particular of busts. In 1851 it carried out a Negro of Tombouctou, in 1852 the bust of “African Venus” as well as an Chinese couple. With its bronze busts of a Mongolian man and a woman (1853), he sought to obtain richer effects of color, tendency to which there consequently remained faithful. He exposed to the Living room of 1857 twelve African busts, the bronze majority. Its interest for the color, which one finds in all works above, often led it to mix the matériaux; it carried out many works thus combining marble and bronzes. It was even further sending to the Living room of 1863 the bust of an Algerian Jewish woman out of enamelled bronze, onyx and porphyry; in 1864 a young mulatto out of bronze, enamel and onyx; in 1866 a statue life size of an Arab woman out of bronze, enamel and onyx; and in 1867 the bust of a Fellah of bronze, gold, money, turquoise and porphyry.

Rope-maker also realized inter alia the statues of the Maréchal Gerard (1856, Verdun), of the Triumph of Amphitrite (1861), of Jean-Baptiste for the Tour Saint-Jacob in Paris, of the Harmony and Poetry for the Palais Garnier. Rope-maker, author of light and realistic works of imagination, showed a gift of observation sharpened.

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Charles Cordier, 1827 - 1905, the other and elsewhere the the occasion of the Exposure Charles Cordier (1827 - 1905), Sculptor, the Other and Elsewhere… with Paris, Museum of Orsay from February 2nd to May 2nd, 2004; with Quebec, National museum of the Art schools of Quebec from June 10th to September 6th, 2004; with New York, Dahesh Museum off Art from October 12th, 2004 to January 9th, 2005/Christine Barthe… Coordination editorale: Brigitte Govignon. Paris: Martinière, 2004. ISBN 2-7324-3078-1.

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