Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier (1848–1930) was a French sculptor. Born in

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, Cordonnier was educated in nearby

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, then in Paris, then in Rome, on a scholarship funded by the foundation of

Jean-Baptiste Wicar Jean-Baptiste Wicar (22 January 1762 – 27 February 1834) was a French Neoclassical painter and art collector. Life The son of a carpenter, Wicar was born in Lille. He studied drawing at the free school in Lille before further honing his t ...

. Cordonnier 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 ...

for sculpture in 1877. Combined with his realistic style, many of Coronnier's themes are progressive and socially minded, for example his ''Les Miséreux'' (the Destitute), ''Les Pauvres gens'' (the Poor), and ''L'inoculation et la fermentation'' (Inoculation and Fermentation), all to be seen at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.

Work

* ''Printemps'' (Spring), 1883 * ''Maternity'', now in the ''Place Adolphe-Chérioux'', 15th arrondissement of Paris, 1899 * allegorical facade figures of ''Education'' and ''Vigilance'' for the

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, circa 1900, for architect

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* allegorical figure of ''Sculpture'' (1900), facade of the Grand Palais, Paris * ''The Sower'', now at

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, 1907 * figures representing cotton-gathering and sheep-shearing, Hotel de Ville, Roubaix, 1911, for architect

* the figure of ''Music'', holding a lyre, for the facade of the

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, completed 1914, inaugurated 1923, for architect Louis M. Cordonnier * Monument to Louis Pasteur, in Lille *

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, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille {{DEFAULTSORT:Cordonnier, Alphonse-Amedee 1848 births 1930 deaths People from La Madeleine, Nord French architectural sculptors Prix de Rome for sculpture 20th-century French sculptors 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French male artists