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Charles Weiss (librarian)
Pierre Charles Weiss (15 January 1779, Besançon (Doubs department) – 11 February 1866, BesançonSource Acte de NaissanceanActe de décès numéro 153 du registre des décès de la commune de Besançon pour l'année 1866) was a 19th-century French librarian and bibliographer. Member of learned societies * Société des Antiquaires de France (1807)« WEISS Charles » sur le site du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Cths * Corresponding member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1832) * Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Besançon et de Franche-Comté * Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (1842-1855) Publications [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Clésinger
Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger (22 October 1814 – 5 January 1883) was a 19th-century French sculptor and painter. Life Auguste Clésinger was born in Besançon, in the Doubs department of France. His father, Georges-Philippe, was a sculptor and trained Auguste in art. Auguste first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1843 with a bust of vicomte Jules de Valdahon and last exhibited there in 1864. At the 1847 Salon, he created a sensation with his '' Woman Bitten by a Serpent'', produced from life-casts from his model Apollonie Sabatier (the pose being particularly suitable for such a method), thus reinforcing the scandal with an erotic dimension. Appolonie Sabatier was a salonnière and the mistress of Charles Baudelaire and others. The sculpture's beauty was praised by Théophile Gautier: Clésinger also portrayed Sabatier as herself, in an 1847 marble sculpture now in the Musée d'Orsay. He produced busts of Rachel Félix and of Théophile Gautier, and a statue of Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
