Hippolyte Maindron

Etienne Hippolyte Maindron known as Hippolyte Maindron is a French sculptor born in 1801 with Champtoceaux (Maine-et-Loire) and died in Paris in 1884.

Of modest origin, Maindron is tested with various trades before leaving its country for the capital thanks to obtaining an annual purse which the department of the Maine-et-Loire had granted to him. To Paris, it enters the workshop of its compatriot David of Angers where it studies until 1838. It will help this one with the realization of the relief of the pediment of the the Pantheon the Fatherland crowning the famous men . Under the Second Empire, the State will in addition order from Maindron two groups to be placed under the peristyle of entry of the building: Attila and Holy Genevieve (1857) and the Conversion of Clovis by holy Remi (1865). These two great units were returned to the reserves of the museums at the time of the last restoration of the monument, and are not thus more on the spot today.

Maindron exposes for the first time to the Living room in 1834 a Berger piqué by a snake . Refused with the Living room the following year, he repeats in 1838. It is however in 1839, qu ' it finds success with the Living room with its Velléda .

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Sources

Luc BENOIST, romantic Sculpture. Edition of Isabelle L. - J. LEMAISTRE , Gallimard, coll <>, Paris, 1994, p. 102 - 106.

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