Jean-Antoine Injalbert

Jean-Antoine Injalbert , born with Béziers in 1845 and died in Paris the January 20th 1933, is a French sculptor.

Wire of a stone mason, it is orphan of mother to the birth. Its first work is the tympanum of the vault of Good Pasteur with Béziers. Price of Rome in 1874 for the Pain of Orphée , it exposes Christ to the World Fair of Paris of 1878. It obtains a Grand Prix of the World Fair of 1889.

One owes him also a bust of Marianne (1889), the four statues which decorate the piles of the Pont Mirabeau of Paris ( the Town of Paris , Navigation , the Trade and Abundance ), the three statues which decorate the Pont of Bir-Hakeim ( Genius dominating the world , Electricity and the Trade ), as the Love governs the hymen .

The town of Pézenas (Herault) ordered to him the monument of Molière (1897). The bust of Molière is surrounded by a maidservant, illustrated by Lucette of Mister de Pourceaugnac , representing the comedy, and of a satyr representing the satire on the back face, with the masks of the actors Coquelin junior and Jeanne Ludwig by the Comédie-Française.

The majority of its works are with the Musée Fayet in Béziers (donation of the bottom of its workshop by its widow in 1934) and with the Villa Antonine, where it had its workshop ( the Fountain of Titan with a fauna or the Child with the fish ).

He is elected member of the Académie of the fine arts in 1905 and he is commander of the Légion of honor.

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