Émile Coriolan Hippolyte Guillemin (; 16 October 1841 – 1907) was a French sculptor of the
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. He worked in
bronze
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. He studied under his father, the painter Auguste Guillemin, and under . He showed work at the
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of Paris from 1870 to 1899, and in 1897 received an honourable mention there. In 2008 his 1884 bronze sculpture ''Femme Kabyle d'Algerie and Janissaire du Sultan Mahmoud II''
(Kabyle woman from Algeria and Janissary of Sultan Mahmound II) sold for $1,202,500 plus auction fees in New York to a private collector through Sotheby's Auction House.
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European art of the 9th century, including Islamic and Orientalist art, Émile-Coriolan-Hippolyte Guillemin (Paris, 1841-1907), ''Femme Kabyle d'Algerie and Jamissaire du Sultan Mahmoud II'' the female figure signed and dated ''Guillemin/1884'', the male signed '' Ele Guillemin '', bronze, silver, gold and polychrome patina with colored hard stone cabochons, both raised on an Italian marble pedestal Rosso Levanto of masculine height 36-inch (91.5 cm), sold for $1,202,500, Sotheby's
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, New York
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, October 21, 2008.
Some versions of his ''Cavalier Arabe'' are signed both by him and by
Alfred Barye, suggesting a collaboration.
Emile Coriolan Hippolyte Guillemin made his debut in the Paris Salon of 1870 where he exhibited a pair of Roman Gladiators, Retaire and Mirmillon, drawn from antiquity. Guillemin specialized in figurative works and was greatly inspired by the Middle East and its exoticism. Representations of Indian falconers, Turkish maidens and Japanese courtesans firmly established Guillemin's reputation as an Orientalist sculptor from the mid-1870's.
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Animalier school
Bibliography
* Pierre Kjellberg, ''Les Bronzes du XIXe Siècle'', Paris, 1987, p. 369.
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1841 births
1907 deaths
Painters from Paris
Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
19th-century French painters
French male painters
19th-century French male artists
Belle Époque
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