Stanislas Lami (30 November 1858 – 31 January 1944) was a French

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and

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Life

He was born in Paris, the son of Marie Bidauld and the sculptor

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. On 24 June 1891 he married Émilie, the daughter of Austrian

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, art dealer and editor.

Works

Some of his works are on show in museums in Spain. 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 ...

has his marble sculpture of a '' Chien danois'' (c.1892) – he also produced a ''Death-Mask of Berlioz'' (1884) now held at the bibliothèque de l'Opéra de Paris. He gave one of his works to his relation

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. Stanislas Lami exhibited frequently 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 ...

s, including that of 1897, and at the Chicago salon of 1893. In the end his descendants held onto the majority of his works. He died in Paris in January, 1944, aged 85.

Publications

Stanislas Lami also published an important dictionary of

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, which is still the largest ever dictionary of sculptors. *''Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'antiquité au VIe siècle de notre ère'' (Paris, 1884, 149 P.) *''Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'École française du Moyen Âge au règne de

Louis XIV , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Vers ...

'' (Paris, 1898, 584 p.) *''Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'École française sous le règne de Louis XIV'' (Paris, 1906, 508 p.) *''Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'École française au XVIIIe siècle'' (Paris, 1910–1911, 2 vol.) *''Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'École française au XIXe siècle'' (Paris, 1914–1921, 4 vol.)

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* ''Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'antiquité au VIe siècle de notre ère'' (Paris, 1884, 149 P.) *
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