Léon François Chervet was a French sculptor, a representative of the high quality of design and execution engendered by the training of the official French

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, even among artists of the second rank in reputation. His

allegorical sculpture Allegorical sculpture are sculptures of personifications of abstract ideas, as in allegory. Common in the western world, for example, are statues of Lady Justice representing justice, traditionally holding scales and a sword, and the statues of P ...

, now called "Amphitrite" (''illustration'') is his only public sculpture. She formerly stood on the façade of the

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, built for the

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and demolished to make way for the Exposition of 1937. She was preserved and offered to the city of

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, where, as "Amphitrite", she now symbolizes Agde's maritime vocation in the ''place de la Marine''. Chervet exhibited at the annual salons at the Palais des Champs-Elysées, Paris, often ''hors concours'', as sculptures acquired by the StatePhotographed examples in th
archives of the Ministry of Culture
''L'enfant à la conque'', in plaster, 1873; ''Le buveur'', in plaster, 1876; ''Bust of Turgot'', marble, 1882

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