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Artist name Augustin Alexandre Dumont
Sex: M
Artist occupation: Sculptor
Geographical data: France
State: France
Date of birth: August 4, 1801
Place of birth: Paris
Date of death: February 1884
Place(s) cited: Paris
Biographical:
Born in Paris he also died there in 1884. He belonged
to a very distinguished artistic family and studied
under the his father Jacques Edme Dumont and Cartellier.
He was runner-up in the Prix de Rome in 1821 and
won a prize two years later. He exhibited at the
Salon, won a first-class medal and in 1831 and the
Legion of Honor five years later. He was made in
member of the Institute in 1838 and a professor
at the école in 1852. He was awarded the
grand medal of honor at the Exposition Universelle
of 1855 and rose to the rank of commander in 1870.
He was a very prolific sculptor and had a profound
influence on French sculpture in the second half
of the 19th-century. He sculpted numerous monuments
and statues in marble and stone amenities any many
of these were edited as bronze reductions. His larger
bronzes included colossal statue of Napoleon and
Caesar, on the column of the grand Armée
in the place Vendôme (1863) and the monuments
and Marshall Davout in Auxerre. His minor works
include a number of portrait busts and allegorical
and genre figures such as Love Tormenting the Spirit,
Young Roman Woman on the Toilet, Eros and Butterfly,
France, Peace and War, the Infant Bacchus being
taught by the nymph Leucotho, Prudence, Truth, the
Muse of Harmony, Architecture and Sculpture.
Exhibitions:
Paris Salon
Museums:
Angers; Musée des beaux-arts
Paris; Musée du Louvre
Paris; Musée d'Orsay
Chantilly; Musée Condé
Troyes; Musée des beaux-arts
Paris; École Nationale Supérieure
des Beaux-Arts
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