Antoine-Augustin Préault (6 October 1809 – 11 January 1879) was a French sculptor of the

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. Born in the Marais district of Paris, he was better known during his lifetime as Auguste Préault.

Biography

A student of David d'Angers, Préault first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1833. He was not favorably looked upon by some of the artistic community's elite due to his outspokenness and because he was part of the circle of activists who participated in the French Revolution of 1830. During that period of turmoil, Préault's studio was vandalized and many of his plaster models were destroyed. As a result of these circumstances his work has been largely overshadowed by his contemporaries. Antoine-Augustin Préault died in Paris in 1879 and was interred in the

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. Words of a nineteenth-century critic describing Préault's work: Comments by Musée d'0rsay at time of exhibition held on Preault's work. Préault is buried in the Pere Lachaise cemetery.

Works

Gallery

File:P1000362 Paris I Eglise Saint-Roch Cenotaphe Abbe de l Epee reductwk.JPG, Tomb of Charles-Michel de L'Épée by Antoine-Augustin Préault in the Saint-Roch church in Paris. File:Cavalier gaulois pont d'iena RG am face.jpg, "Cavalier gaulois" by Antoine-Augustin Préault. Sculpture on Pont d'Iéna File:Jacques Coeur tête.JPG, The head of Jacques Coeur. Jacques Coeur's statue by Préault is located in Bourges. File:Médaillon Rouvière par Préault.jpg, Antoine-Augustin Préault medallion on Rouvière's tomb. File:Père-Lachaise - Division 55 - Desnoyers 02.jpg, Antoine-Augustin Préault medallion on the tomb of Desnoyers in Père-Lachaise cemetery. File:Versailles Statue Mansart.JPG, Statue of the architect J.H. Mansart at Versailles by Antoine-Augustin Préault. File:Versailles Statue Le Nôtre.JPG, Antoine-Augustin Préault's statue of André Le Nôtre a landscape architect and the gardener of King Louis XIV of France. He was most notably responsible for the construction of the park of the Palace of Versailles File:Préault 12-513842.jpg, Preault's composition "Vague"- Study of the contorted body of a water-sprite File:Préault - Le Silence - Roblès 05.jpg, Préault's enigmatic composition called "Le Silence" used on the tomb of Jacob Roblès File:Tuerie d'Auguste Préault (Petit Palais, Paris) (48742113956).jpg, ''Tuerie'', 1834, musée des beaux-arts de

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. File:Statue de Marceau à Chartres.JPG, Marceau statue in Chartres, 1845. File:Clemence Isaure Jardin du Luxembourg.jpg, ''Clémence Isaure'' by Préault,

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*''Auguste Préault : sculpteur romantique, ''. Author: compilation. (1997) Gallimard

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Preault, Antoine-Augustin 1809 births 1879 deaths Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French male artists