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Jean-Marie Bienaimé Bonnassieux (; 1810, Panissières, Loire – 1892) was a French sculptor.

Biography

The son of a

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from

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, Bonnassieux showed talent as a boy and was educated at the

École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Science ...

, Paris, under

Augustin-Alexandre Dumont Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, known as Auguste Dumont (4 August 1801, in Paris – 28 January 1884, in Paris) was a French sculptor. Biography He was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of Pierre Dumont, son of Jacques-Edme ...

. In 1836 he was the co-winner (with

Auguste Ottin Auguste-Louis-Marie Jenks Ottin (1811–1890) was a French academic sculptor and recipient of the decoration of the Legion of Honor. Early life Ottin was born and died in Paris, where he was a pupil of David d'Angers and of the École des B ...

) of 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 ...

'', then completed his education in Rome under the direction of

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. Bonnassieux subsequently taught at the Ecole, and among his students in the 1880s was the young American

Lorado Taft Lorado Zadok Taft (April 29, 1860, in Elmwood, Illinois – October 30, 1936, in Chicago) was an American sculptor, writer and educator. His 1903 book, ''The History of American Sculpture,'' was the first survey of the subject and stood for decad ...

, and the British-American sculptor

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. Bonnassieux is set in the context of rigid French academic training in the 19th century in a study of the careers of seventeen winners of the ''Prix de Rome'' by A. Le Normand, ''La Tradition Classique et l'Esprit Romantique: Les sculpteurs de l'académie de France à Rome de 1824 à 1840'' (Rome, 1991). Bonnassieux is buried at

Montparnasse Cemetery Montparnasse Cemetery (french: link=no, Cimetière du Montparnasse) 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 ...

Selected works

* ''Wisdom, Truth and Error'',

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group on top of the

Pavillon de Marsan The Pavillon de Marsan or Marsan Pavilion was built in the 1660s as the northern end of the Tuileries Palace in Paris, and reconstructed in the 1870s after the Tuileries burned down at the end of the Paris Commune. Following the completion of th ...

, facing the

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, at the

Palais du Louvre The Louvre Palace (french: link=no, Palais du Louvre, ), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a vast expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the ...

, and other work at the Louvre from the 1850s through the 1870s * bronze figure of

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, Place de Henri IV,

La Flèche La Flèche () is a town and commune in the French department of Sarthe, in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire Valley. It is the sub-prefecture of the South-Sarthe, the chief district and the chief city of a canton, and the second most po ...

, 1856 * ''Groupe des Heures'' over the clock,

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, 1858 and 1863 * The iron statue of ''Notre-Dame de France'' overlooking the town of

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is made from 213 Russian

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s taken in the

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and was presented to the public on 12 September 1860 in front of 120,000 people. * monument at the tomb of

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ...

Père Lachaise Cemetery Père Lachaise Cemetery (french: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise ; formerly , "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France (). With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world. Notable figures ...

, 1868 * architectural work at the

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, 1868 * figure of Archbishop of Paris

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, St. Georges chapel,

Notre Dame de Paris Notre-Dame de Paris (; meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the Seine River), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The cathedral, dedicated to the ...

, 1872

Sources

* Daniel Cady Eaton, ''A Handbook of Modern French Sculpture'', * Thierry Boyer-Bonnassieux * Grove Dictionary of Art

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bonnassieux, Jean-Marie 1810 births 1892 deaths People from Loire (department) French architectural sculptors Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Prix de Rome for sculpture Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French male artists