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See also:PAUL See also:DUBOIS (1829-1905)
, See also:French sculptor and painter, was See also:born at Nogent-sur-See also:Seine on the 18th of See also:July 1829
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He studied See also:law to please his See also:family, and See also:art to please himself, and finally adopted the latter, and placed himself under See also:Toussaint
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After studying at the 1 See also:cole See also:des See also:Beaux-Arts, See also:Dubois went to See also:Rome
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His first contributions to the See also:Paris See also:Salon (186o) were busts of " The Countess de B." and " A See also:Child." For his first ,statues, " St See also: His drawings and copies after the Old Masters are of See also:peculiar excellence: they include " The Dead See also:Christ " (after See also:Sebastian del Piombo) and " See also:Adam and Eve " (after See also:Raphael) . In 1873 Dubois was appointed keeper of the Luxemburg Museum . He succeeded See also:Guillaume as director of the 1 cole des Beaux-Arts, 1878, and Perraud as member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts . Twice at the Salon he obtained the medal of See also:honour (1865 and 1876), and once at the Universal Exhibition (1878) . He also won numerous other distinctions, and was appointed See also:grand See also:cross of the See also:Legion of Honour . He was made a member of several See also:European orders, and in 1895 was elected an honorary See also:foreign academician of the Royal See also:Academy of See also:London . He died at Paris in 1905 . |
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