Eugène André Oudiné (1 January 1810,

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– 12 April 1887, Paris) was a French sculptor and engraver of

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s and

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s, and devoted himself from the beginning to the medallist's branch of sculpture, although he also excelled in

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al sculpture and portrait busts.

Life

Having taken the

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for engraving in 1831, he had a sensational success with his ''Wounded Gladiator'', which he exhibited in the same year. He subsequently occupied official posts as designer, first to the Inland Revenue Office, and then to the Mint. Among his most famous medals are that struck in commemoration of the annexation of Savoy by France, and that on the occasion of the peace of Villafranca. Bathsheba Oudine cour Carree Louvre

Other remarkable pieces are ''The Apotheosis of Napoleon I'', ''The Amnesty'', ''Le Duc d'Orleans'', ''Bertholet'', ''The Universal Exposition'', ''The Second of December, 1851'', ''The Establishment of the Republic'', ''The Battle of Inkermann'', and ''Napoleon's Tomb at the Invalides''. For the

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he executed fourteen

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, which were destroyed in 1871. Of his monumental works, many are to be seen in public places in and near Paris. In the

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gardens is his group of ''Daphnis and Hebe''; in the

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the ''Queen Bertha''; at the

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the ''Buffon''; and in the courtyard of the same palace the ''Bathsheba''. A monument to General Espagne is at the

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, and a King Louis VIII at

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. Oudine, who may be considered the father of the modern medal, died in Paris on 12 April 1887.

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* 1810 births 1887 deaths Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Prix de Rome for engraving 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub

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