Jean-Baptiste Baujault (born 19 April 1828 in

La Crèche La Crèche () is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. Population People from La Crèche * Jean-Baptiste Baujault, French sculptor See also *Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department The ...

, Deux-Sèvres, died in 1899) was a French sculptor.

Biography

The marble statue named ''Jeune Gaulois'', kept at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris belongs to the series of

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which occupied much the second half of the 19th century. The mistletoe and the sickle have disappeared. He participated in the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

, but didn't win. He lived and worked in Paris, at

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and

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, but went into exile in the region of Nantes during the 1870 War. He held the

Légion d'Honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

Main works

* ''Premier Miroir'', 1873, marble,

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, Musée Bernard d'Agesci * ''Jeune Gaulois'' or ''Au gui l'an neuf!'', 1870–1875, marble, Paris, Musée d'Orsay * Bust of

Antoine Chintreuil Antoine Chintreuil (May 15, 1814 – August 8, 1873) was a French landscape art, landscape painter. He was among the starving artists who lived ''la vie de bohéme'' in Paris in the 1840s, as popularized by his friend and fellow Bohemianism, Bohem ...

, 1879, public monument, Septeuil, France

References

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