Jean Gautherin (28 December 1840 – 21 July 1890) was a French sculptor particularly known for his marble and bronze statues commissioned by the City of Paris.
Gautherin was born to a family of peasant farmers in Savault, a hamlet in the commune of
Ouroux-en-Morvan
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Geography
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. With the help of a local patron he studied in Paris, first at the
Gobelins
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* Gobelin, the name of family of dyers, established from the 15th century
* Gobelins Manufactory, a historic tapestry factory in Paris, France
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school for apprentices, followed by training in the atelier of
Charles Gumery, and in 1864 he was admitted to the
École des Beaux-Arts. The following year his work was accepted at the
Paris Salon
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where he exhibited annually until his death, although after winning medals in the Salons of 1868, 1870, and 1873, he exhibited ''
hors de concours'' (''out of competition''). His first major success came in 1876 with a marble sculpture of
Saint Sebastien, which led to commissions from the City of Paris, and the cathedrals of
Marseille and
Nevers. He was made a
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1878.
['' Le Figaro'' (23 July 1890)]
"Échos"
p. 1. Retrieved 1 September 2014 .
Gautherin died of a sudden illness in Paris at the age of 49, survived by his wife Anne-Marie (''née'' Loué), whom he had married in 1883, and their three young children. Following his funeral at the Église Notre-Dame-des-Champs, he was buried in
Montparnasse Cemetery
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.
Selected works
* Grave of Simon Marx (1865), Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris.
* ''Saint Sébastien'' (1876),
Musée d'Orsay
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, Paris.
* ''Clotilde de Surville'' (1878), Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
* ''Le Ville de Paris'' (1881),
Hôtel de Ville, Paris. An allegorical figure of the City of Paris.
* ''Le Paradis Perdu'' (''Paradise Lost'') (1883),
Mairie of the
5th arrondissement, Paris. This sculpture of Adam and Eve was originally situated in the
Parc Monceau.
A copy is in the
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
* ''
Diderot
Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominen ...
'' (1884),
Boulevard Saint-Germain
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It curves in a 3.5-kilometre (2.1 miles) arc from the Pont de Sully in the east (the bridge at the edge of ÃŽle Saint-Louis) to the Pont de la Concorde ( ...
, Paris.
* ''Marguerite'' (c. 1886). A life-sized copy after Gautherin's statuette was modeled in 1911 for the Lanning Fountain at
Smith College
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in Northampton, Massachusetts.
[John Sippel]
"A New Look for – and at – a College Icon" (1998)
from Smith College.
* ''Maria Fedorovna, Empress-Consort of Russia'' (1889).
File:Père-Lachaise - Division 4 - Marx 02.jpg, Grave of Simon Marx (1865), Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris.
File:Gautherin - Saint Sébastien.jpg, ''Saint Sébastien'' (1876), église Saint-Antoine, Compiègne.
File:La Ville de Paris 1881 Jean Gautherin Hôtel de Ville.jpg, ''La Ville de Paris'' (''The City of Paris'') (1881), sculpture above the monumental clock of the Hôtel de Ville de Paris.
File:Le-Paradis-perdu.jpg, ''Le Paradis Perdu'' (''Paradise Lost''), 1883, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek,
File:P1020885 Paris VI Place Jacques-Copeau Diderot par Gautherin rwk.JPG, ''Diderot'' (1884), Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris.
File:Gautheron - Portrait de l'imperatrice de Russie.jpg, ''Maria Fedorovna, Empress-Consort of Russia'' (1889), Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
References
External links
Marble bust of Jean Gautherin's wife(sculpted in 1889, a year before his death).
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 ...
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1840 births
1890 deaths
École des Beaux-Arts alumni
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
19th-century French male artists