Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
sculptor
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Adolphe Thiers
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers ( ; ; 15 April 17973 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian who served as President of France from 1871 to 1873. He was the second elected president and the first of the Third French Republic.
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, who was at this time minister of public works, now commissioned him to execute the two groups of ''Peace'' and ''War'', flanking the arch on the east facade of the
Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, often called simply the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Plac ...
. This last, which established his reputation, he reproduced in marble in the Paris Salon of 1839.
The French capital contains numerous examples of the sculptural works of Étex, which included mythological and religious subjects besides a great number of portraits. Among the best known of his architectural productions is Étex's tomb of
Théodore Géricault
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is '' The Raft of the Medusa''. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romanti ...
in
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise Cemetery (, , formerly , ) is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at . With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world.
Buried at Père Lachaise are many famous figures in the ...
, which includes a bronze figure of the painter, and a low-relief version the painter's controversial '' Raft of the Medusa'' on a front panel.
Étex's paintings include the subjects of
Eurydice
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and the martyrdom of
Saint Sebastian
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, and he also wrote a number of essays on subjects connected with the arts. The last year of his life was spent at
Nice
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Seine-et-Oise
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in 1888. He was buried in the
Cimetière du Montparnasse
Montparnasse Cemetery () is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, in the city's 14th arrondissement. The cemetery is roughly 47 acres and is the second largest cemetery in Paris. The cemetery has over 35,000 graves, and approximately 1 ...
in Paris.
Works
* '' Sainte-Geneviève'', marble, 1830, Clamecy, collégiale Saint-Martin
* '' Caïn et sa race maudits de Dieu'', marble, (1832–1839), Lyon, musée des Beaux-Arts
* ''La Résistance de 1814'', stone, (1833–1837), Paris, arc de triomphe de l'Étoile, western façade
* ''La Paix'', stone, (1833–1837), Paris, arc de triomphe de l'Étoile, western façade
* ''Tombeau de Géricault'', Paris,
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise Cemetery (, , formerly , ) is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at . With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world.
Buried at Père Lachaise are many famous figures in the ...
Rouen
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musée du Louvre
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* ''Portrait du baron Dufour, maire de Metz (1769–1842)'', medal, marble, 1845,
Metz
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, Grand salon de l'Hôtel de Ville
* ''Médaillon du poète Auguste Brizeux'' (1803–1858) at the cemetery of Carnel in
Lorient
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History
Prehistory and classical antiquity
Beginn ...
; medal, marble, 1858
Gallery
Image:Perelachaise-Gericault-p1000405.jpg, Étex's tomb of
Théodore Géricault
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is '' The Raft of the Medusa''. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romanti ...
Image:Perelachaise-Gericault-p1000404.jpg, Géricault's tomb, showing front panel
Image:Paris Arc de Triomphe 02.jpg, ''Peace'', east facade of the
Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, often called simply the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Plac ...
Image:Paris Arc de Triomphe 03.jpg, ''The Resistance'', east facade of the
Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, often called simply the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Plac ...
References
* PE Mangeant, ''Antoine Étex, peintre, sculpteur et architecte, 1808-1888'' (Paris, 1894).