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JULES See also:DALOU (1838-1902)
, See also:French sculptor, was the See also:pupil of See also:Carpeaux and Duret, and combined the vivacity and richness of the one with the See also:academic purity and scholarship of the other
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He is one of the most brilliant virtuosos of the French school, admirable alike in See also:taste, See also:execution and arrangement
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He first exhibited at the See also:Salon in 1867, but when in 1871 the troubles of the See also:Commune See also:broke out in See also:Paris, he took See also:refuge in See also:England, where he rapidly made a name through his See also:appointment at See also:South See also:Kensington
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Here he laid the See also:foundation of that See also:great improvement which resulted in the development of the See also:modern See also:British school of See also:sculpture, and at the same See also:time executed a remarkable See also:series of terra-See also:cotta statuettes and See also:groups, such as " A French See also:Peasant Woman " (of which a See also:bronze version under the See also:title of " Maternity " is erected outside the Royal See also:Exchange), the See also:group of two See also:Boulogne See also:women called " The Reader " and " A Woman of Boulogne telling her Beads." He returned to See also:France in 1879 and produced a number of masterpieces
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His great See also:relief of " See also:Mirabeau replying to M. de See also:Dreux-See also:Breze," exhibited in 1883 and now at the Palais See also:Bourbon, and the highly decorative See also:panel, " See also:Triumph of the See also:Republic," were followed in 1885 by " The Procession of See also:Silenus." For the See also:city of Paris he executed his most elaborate and splendid achievement, the vast See also:monument, " The Triumph of the Republic," erected, after twenty years' See also:work, in the See also:Place de la Nation, showing a symbolical figure of the Republic, aloft on her See also:car, See also:drawn by lions led by See also:Liberty, attended by Labour and See also:Justice, and followed by See also:Peace
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