Jean-Baptiste Hugues (15 April 1849,

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

– 28 October 1930,

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) was a French

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

. He won the

Grand 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 ...

for sculpture in 1875. He was resident at the

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from 1876 to 1879. When he was alive, he gained some fame : his works were exhibited at the Salons and were always commented on by critics and writers at the time. He produced several sculptures including ''La Fontaine des Danaïdes'' in Marseille or ''La Gravure '' at the

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, pediments,

bas-relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term ''relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the ...

s on monuments, busts, fountains and ceilings of Parisian restaurants.''Jean-Baptiste Hugues, un sculpteur sous la III République'', Laurent Noet, Théles editions, 2002, ()

Works

* ''Ombres de Paolo et Francesca da Rimini'', outline for the Prix de Rome,

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art ...

, Paris, 1877 * ''Femme jouant avec son enfant'', marble,

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, Roubaix, 1880 * ''Œdipe à Colone'', Musée d'Orsay, 1885 * '' La República Argentina'', bronze, Escuela Técnica Raggio, Buenos Aires, 1889 * ''Limoges'' and ''Nantes'', allegorical statues for the Gare de Tours, for architect

Victor Laloux Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux (15 November 1850 – 13 July 1937) was a French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher. Life Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André, with his studies i ...

, 1898 * allegorical figures of ''Courage'' and ''Strength'' for the

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, for Laloux, c. 1900 * ''La Muse de la source'', font, marble and bronze, Musée d'Orsay, 1900 * ''La Misère'', Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, 1907 * ''La Vigne'', terracotta, Musée d'Orsay * ''Buste de M^elle Rateau'', patinated plaster

References

External links

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Jean-Baptiste Hugues, on ''Culture.gouv.fr''
1849 births 1930 deaths Sculptors from Marseille Prix de Rome for sculpture 20th-century French sculptors 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub