Coutan, Jules-Felix
(Geboren: Paris, 22 Sept 1848; Gestorben: Paris, 23 Feb
1939). French sculptor and designer. He was a pupil of Pierre-Jules
Cavelier at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and in 1872
won the Prix de Rome for his statue Ajax Struck down while
Defying the Gods, spending the years 1872/6 at the Academie
de France in Rome. In 1876 he sent his first submission
to the Paris Salon, and from 1880 he was involved in many
projects for the sculptural decoration of public buildings
in Paris, including the Palais de Justice, the Hotel de
Ville (herald in 14th-century dress, bronze, 1885), the
Bibliotheque Nationale (Calligraphy, marble, 1893) and the
Opera-Comique (caryatids, 1899). His bronze relief of Eagle
Hunters for the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
(plaster version, 1900; Paris, Mus. D'Orsay), is an example
of the fin-de-siecle neo-Baroque style.
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