Jean-Paul Aubé (3 July 1837 – 23 August 1916) 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 ...

. Aubé was born in Longwy, north eastern France, and educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He died at

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Main works

* ''Dante'', 1879, plaster, model of the bronze statue of the place Marcellin Berthelot, to the Collège de France in Paris * ''Buste de hollandaise'', La Piscine (museum of art and industry) * ''La Comtesse Hallez'',

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* ''Monument à Léon Gambetta'', erected in the Cour of Napoleon of the

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, a 27-meter monument inaugurated on 14 July 1888, permanently removed from the court of Napoleon in 1954. * ''La statue de J.B.Colbert'' aux Manufactures des Gobelins.

Gallery

File:Nantes - Procé (sc 4).jpg, ''La Moisson'' (1879),

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, Procé park. File:Statue de Dante.JPG, ''Monument à

Dante Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: '' ...

'' (1882),

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, Michel-Foucault square. File:Statue Leon Gambetta - Square Edouard Vaillant - Paris - 01.jpg, '' Monument à Léon Gambetta'' (1888),

, Édouard-Vaillant square, in 2011. File:Jean-PaulAubé BusteDeHollandaise MuséePiscineRoubaix0.jpg, ''Buste de Hollandaise'',

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, La Piscine.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aube, Jean-Paul 1837 births 1916 deaths People from Longwy 20th-century French sculptors 20th-century French male artists 19th-century French sculptors 19th-century French male artists French male sculptors