Charles Auguste Arnaud (22 August 1825 – 6 September 1883), known as Auguste Arnaud was a French
sculptor.
Life
Arnaud was born at
La Rochelle. A student of the École des Beaux-Arts at
Angers, he first came to
Paris thanks to a scholarship for his département, joining the workshop of
François Rude. There he exhibited at the entry competition for the Paris
École des Beaux-Arts in 1842. He exhibited regularly at the
Salon
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from 1846 to 1865.
Producing several
busts, such as those of the Comte de Clarac (commissioned in 1852 for the
Louvre), the
architect Fontaine (1854–1858),
Ferdinand de Lesseps and the
composer
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Halévy, Arnaud also produced monumental works such as the "Le
Chasseur à pied" and "L'
Artilleur" for the
pont de l'Alma in 1856–57 – with "Le
Zouave
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" et "Le
Grenadier
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" by
Georges Diebolt, these symbolised the victory of France and her allies at the
Battle of the Alma in the
Crimean War on 20 September 1854. He conceived the tympanum and 35 statues relating to the
life of the Virgin for
Sées's cathedral in 1852 and, for his birthplace of
La Rochelle, he designed a monument to M. Fleuriau de Bellevue (bust and
bas-relief in
bronze
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) in 1853.
Having failed to win an 1858 competition for a commission to create a statue of king
Don Pedro II of
Portugal, and affected by the failure of his ''Vénus aux cheveux d'or'' (''Golden-haired Venus'') at the Salon of 1863 despite its purchase by
Napoleon III, Arnaud fell little by little into madness. He died horribly in a
railway accident in 1883.
Works
* ''Portrait of comte
Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste de Clarac
Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste, Comte de Clarac (24 June 1777, Paris – 20 January 1847, Paris) was a French artist, scholar and archaeologist. He published a catalogue of the Musée du Louvre, and a ''Manuel de l'Histoire de l'art'' and ...
, conservateur of antiquities at the Louvre (1777–1847)'' (1854),
herm
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bust, marble, Paris,
musée du Louvre
* ''Portrait of
Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, architect of the Louvre (1762–1853)'' (1857), herm bust, marble, Paris, musée du Louvre
Sources
* Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre (sous la direction de Jean-René Gaborit, avec la collaboration de Jean-Charles Agboton, Hélène Grollemund, Michèle Lafabrie, Béatrice Tupinier-Barillon), ''Musée du Louvre. département des sculptures du Moyen Âge, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes. Sculpture française II. Renaissance et temps modernes. vol. 1 Adam - Gois'', Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1998
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1825 births
1883 deaths
People from La Rochelle
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
19th-century French male artists