Stoning St Stephen Saint-Etienne-du-Mont

Gabriel-Jules Thomas (10 September 1824 – 8 March 1905) was a French

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

, born in Paris. Thomas attended the

École des Beaux-Arts École des Beaux-Arts (; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centur ...

and in 1848 he won the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

in the sculpture category with his ''Philoctète partant pour le siège de Troie'' ("Philoctetes Leaves for the Siege of Troy") in

plaster Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. In English, "plaster" usually means a material used for the interiors of buildings, while "re ...

. This piece was briefly displayed in New York City at the

Dahesh Museum of Art The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only museum in the United States devoted to the collection and exhibition of European academic art of the 19th and 20th century. The collection, located in Manhattan, New York City, originated with Lebanese writer ...

for their 2005–2006 exhibition entitled "The Legacy of

Homer Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...

." It is normally kept at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He later taught at the Ecole. Among his students were

Gaston Lachaise Gaston Lachaise (March 19, 1882 – October 18, 1935) was a French-born sculptor, active in the early 20th century. A native of Paris, he was most noted for his female nudes such as '' Standing Woman''. Gaston Lachaise was taught the refinement o ...

.and American sculptor, August Zeller.

Works

* ''

Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 7021 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: th ...

'', 1861, marble, Paris, Musée d'Orsay * '' Mademoiselle Mars'', plaster, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers * ''The Stoning of St. Stephen'', the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris, 1863 * ''Frankfurt'', 1864–1865, stone, Paris, façade for the Gare du Nord train station * ''Bust of

Augustin Dumont Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, known as Auguste Dumont (4 August 1801, in Paris – 28 January 1884, in Paris) was a French sculptor. Biography He was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of Pierre Dumont, son of Jacques-Edme ...

'', bronze, 1877,

Pont-Audemer Pont-Audemer () is a commune in the Eure department in the Normandy region in northern France.Musée Alfred Canel * Memorial to Baron Taylor,

Père Lachaise Cemetery Père Lachaise Cemetery (french: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise ; formerly , "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France (). With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world. Notable figure ...

, Paris, circa 1879

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* 1824 births 1905 deaths Artists from Paris French sculptors French male sculptors Prix de Rome for sculpture {{France-sculptor-stub