Léopold Morice (;
Nîmes
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, 9 July 1843 -
Paris
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, 30 June 1919) was a French sculptor.
Life
An apprentice in Auguste Bosc's studio then in
François Jouffroy's studio, he was later admitted to the ''
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
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'' aged 19. His talent gained him several medals during his training there. He won several contracts in 1875 in
Paris
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,
Dunkerque,
Nîmes
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,
Pompignan, at
Le Vigan and in
Venezuela
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.
One of his most notable works is the statue of
Marianne
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in
Place de la République
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in Paris, on a pedestal by his brother, the architect François-Charles Morice (1848–1908).
In 1910 and 1911 he produced two monuments in memory of
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, one at Montcalm's birthplace of
Vestric-et-Candiac (
Cantal
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) and the other in
Québec
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, where Montcalm died. In writing of these monuments, Georges Bellerive stated:
Morice was made a
Chevalier dans l'Ordre de la Legion d'Honneur in 1888.
In his lifetime, Morice taught many aspiring artists. One of his most prized students was
Jules Edouard Roiné.
References
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1843 births
1919 deaths
Artists from Nîmes
20th-century French sculptors
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
Knights of the Legion of Honour
19th-century French male artists