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Career

Lombard began exhibiting his work at the

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in 1878. He designed a statue of Pierre Puget on the Place de la Bourse, now known as the Place du Général-de-Gaulle, in Marseille in 1906. It was subsequently moved to Cours Pierre Puget. He designed several statues in the Saint-Pierre Cemetery and a frontispiece called ''La Provence rurale et maritime'' on the building of the Caisse d'Épargne in Marseille. He also designed a statue called ''Nice se donne à la France'' for the Palais des ducs de Savoie in

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, and another statue called ''La Vérité'' on the facade of the Palace of Justice of Paris. Lombard won the

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for ''Mort de Diagoras de Rhodes'' in 1883. He became a Knight of the

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in 1894. He was a professor of sculpture at his alma mater, the École des Beaux-Arts, from 1900 to 1929, where he taught evening classes.

Death

Lombard died on 23 July 1929 in Paris.

References

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1855 births 1929 deaths Sculptors from Marseille École des Beaux-Arts alumni French male sculptors 19th-century French sculptors 20th-century French sculptors Prix de Rome for sculpture Academic staff of the École des Beaux-Arts Knights of the Legion of Honour 19th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub