Laurent-Honoré Marqueste ( Toulouse 12 June 1848 — Paris, 5 April 1920) was a French sculptor in the neo-Baroque Beaux-Arts tradition. He was a pupil of

François Jouffroy François Jouffroy (1 February 1806 – 25 June 1882) was a French sculptor. Biography Jouffroy was born in Dijon, France, the son of a baker, and attended the local drawing school before being admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 18 ...

and of Alexandre Falguière. Marqueste won the Prix de Rome in 1871.

Life

Marqueste was born at Toulouse, 12 June 1848. He made his official debut at the

Paris salon The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

of 1874 (with his painting ''Jacob and the Angel''). In 1893, he became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris. In 1884 he received the Legion of Honour (becoming an officer in 1894, and commander in 1903). He became a member of the Institute de France in 1894.

Career

Marqueste's virtuosic work, often combining two figures, tended to be executed by specialist carvers working by pointing up his models, as had become common studio practice among French sculptors in the later nineteenth century. Among his commissions are a large number of allegorical architectural figural sculptures, historical portraits (''Victor Hugo'', and ''Geographie'' for the Sorbonne, 1901) and others for the monumental Gare d'Orsay (now the

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), the

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, the

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for the 1900 Exposition, and the Hôtel Dufayel, Avenue des Champs-Élysées (1906, demolished). Public monuments by Marqueste are to be found also, in which was very much criticised; as well as monuments for North and South America. He was also the author of portrait busts and statues of

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

, Léo Delibes, Ferdinand Fabre and a large output of classical subjects. He gained the Grand Prix at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. He taught at

, where his notable students included Fanny Rozet. His portrait bust, sculpted by Ernest Henri Dubois, is at the Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, which also has a considerable series of statuettes and '' maquettes'', or sculptural sketches. His papers are conserved at the historical department of the Archives Nationales.

Selected works

*''Velléda'' (seated figure, 1877) (At the entrance to the Musée des Augustins, Toulouse) *''The Sorrow of Orpheus'' (1879) *''Diana Surprised at the Bath'' (1880) *''Cupid'' ( Musée des Augustins, Toulouse) *''Galatea'' (1884) *''L'Art et la Fortune'' (1887) *''Nessus and Deianira'' (1892) ( Tuileries Gardens, Paris). *''Perseus and the Gorgon'' 1890. (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre;Illustration.
/ref> Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen). *''La Cigale'' (1900) *''Hebe'' (1909, shown at the Salon des artistes français)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marqueste, Laurent-Honore 1848 births 1920 deaths Prix de Rome for sculpture Members of the Académie des beaux-arts 20th-century French sculptors 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French male artists