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Charles Raoul Verlet (7 September 1857,
Angoulême
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- 1 December 1923,
Cannes
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) was a French sculptor and art professor.
Biography
His father was the concierge at the Angoulême cemetery. He initially sculpture in
Bordeaux
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, from 1884 to 1886, then enrolled at the
École des beaux-arts de Paris
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, where he studied with
Jules Cavelier and
Louis-Ernest Barrias
Louis-Ernest Barrias (13 April 1841 – 4 February 1905) was a French sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school. In 1865 Barrias won the Prix de Rome for study at the French Academy in Rome.
Barrias was involved in the decoration of the Paris Opéra ...
for four years. While there, he was awarded a medal that earned him a scholarship.
In 1885, he obtained an honorable mention at the
Salon
Salon may refer to:
Common meanings
* Beauty salon, a venue for cosmetic treatments
* French term for a drawing room, an architectural space in a home
* Salon (gathering), a meeting for learning or enjoyment
Arts and entertainment
* Salon (P ...
for a
bust
Bust commonly refers to:
* A woman's breasts
* Bust (sculpture), of head and shoulders
* An arrest
Bust may also refer to:
Places
* Bust, Bas-Rhin, a city in France
*Lashkargah, Afghanistan, known as Bust historically
Media
* ''Bust'' (magazin ...
of doctor
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud (16 September 1796 – 29 October 1881) was a French physician born in Bragette, now part of Garat, Charente. Bouillaud was an early advocate of the localization of cerebral functions (especially of speech).
He received ...
. Later, he entered a competition for a monument, honoring those from
Charente
Charente (; Saintongese: ''Chérente''; oc, Charanta ) is a department in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, south western France. It is named after the river Charente, the most important and longest river in the department, an ...
who had died during the
Franco-Prussian War. The jury that chose him was composed of many notable artists, including
Alexandre Falguière
Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière (also given as Jean-Joseph-Alexandre Falguière, or in short Alexandre Falguière) (7 September 183120 April 1900) was a French sculptor and painter.
Biography
Falguière was born in Toulouse. A pupil of the à ...
,
Antonin Mercié
Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (October 30, 1845 in Toulouse – December 12, 1916 in Paris), was a French sculptor, medallist and painter.
Biography
Mercié entered the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and studied under Alexandre Falguière and ...
,
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French people, French Painting, painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France". He became the co-founder and president of the Soci ...
,
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ran ...
,
Emmanuel Frémiet
Emmanuel Frémiet (6 December 182410 September 1910) was a French sculptor. He is famous for his 1874 sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris (and its "sister" statues in Philadelphia and Portland, Oregon) and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in S ...
and
Jules Dalou
Aimé-Jules Dalou (31 December 183815 April 1902) was a 19th-century French sculptor, admired for his perceptiveness, execution, and unpretentious realism.
Early life
Born in Paris to a working-class family of Huguenot background, he was raised ...
. He was then chosen for another war monument in
Châteauroux
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Climate
Ch ...
that was dedicated in 1897.
As his reputation grew, he received commissions for statues and monuments in
Paris
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,
Rouen
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,
Marseille
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,
Cognac
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Cog ...
and
Louviers
Louviers () is a Communes of France, commune in the Eure Departments of France, department in Normandy (administrative region), Normandy in north-western France.
Louviers is from Paris and from Rouen.
Population
History
Prehistory
In the ...
. Two of his best known are those honoring
Marie François Sadi Carnot
Marie François Sadi Carnot (; 11 August 1837 – 25 June 1894) was a French statesman, who served as the President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.
Early life
Marie François Sadi Carnot was the son of the statesman Hippol ...
, in Angoulême, and
Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...
, at the
Parc Monceau
Parc Monceau () is a public park situated in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, at the junction of Boulevard de Courcelles, Rue de Prony and Rue Georges Berger. At the main entrance is a rotunda. The park covers an area of 8.2 hectares (20 ...
in Paris. He was named a Knight in the
Legion of Honor
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in 1893; becoming an Officer in 1900.
He eventually settled in Louviers, where his wife was from, and became President of the "Société des Amis des Arts de l'Eure",
[''La Sculpture du XIXs dans l'Eure (1820-1914)'', Musée de Bernay, 1987.] but he continued to maintain a studio in Paris and taught at the
Académie Julian
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. After 1905, he was a teacher at the École Beaux-Arts and, in 1910, was named a member of the
Institut de France
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. During the 1910s, he created a series of statues honoring the national heroes of
Colombia
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, which may be seen throughout
Bogotá
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.
["Bogotá, un museo a cielo abierto"](_blank)
AlcaldÃa Mayor de Bogotá, 2008, pg.405
His son, the poet , was seriously wounded during
World War I
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and died before him, in 1922.
Selected works
Château de Chantilly, petit parc, monument du prince Henri.jpg, Henri d'Orléans,
Château de Chantilly
The Château de Chantilly () is a historic French château located in the town of Chantilly, Oise, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Paris. The site comprises two attached buildings: the Petit Château built around 1560 for Anne de Montmor ...
.
Statue Georges de Villebois-Mareuil Nantes 01.jpg, Georges de Villebois-Mareuil, Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...
File:Angoulême Monument Carnot 2012.jpg, Monument to Sadi carnot, Angoulême
File:Dreux - square de la République (02).jpg, "The Prodigal Girl", Dreux
Dreux () is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.
Geography
Dreux lies on the small river Blaise, a tributary of the Eure, about 35 km north of Chartres. Dreux station has rail connections to Argentan, Paris and Granvi ...
File:Antonio José de Sucre, escultura de Verlet en Chapinero.jpg, Antonio José de Sucre
Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá (; 3 February 1795 – 4 June 1830), known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" ( en, "Grand Marshal of Ayacucho"), was a Venezuelan independence leader who served as the president of Peru and as the second pr ...
, Bogotá
File:Guy de Maupassant, parc Monceau, Été des villes 2015.jpg, Guy de Maupassant,
Parc Monceau
References
Further reading
* Loïc Vadelorge, ''Les Statues de Rouen, xixe – xxe siècles'', Rouen, 1999 .
* Guillaume Peigné, ''Dictionnaire des sculpteurs néo-baroques français (1870-1914)'', CTHS, 2012
External links
Works by Raoul Verlet referenced at the
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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1857 births
1923 deaths
French sculptors
Académie Julian
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
Institut de France
People from Angoulême