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$See also: TEA, See also: ANTOINE (18o8-1888), French sculptor, painter and architect, was See also: born in See also: Paris on the loth of See also: March 1808
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He first exhibited in the
See also: salon of 1833, his See also: work including a See also: reproduction in marble of his " See also: Death of See also: Hyacinthus," and the See also: plaster cast of his " See also: Cain and his See also: race cursed by See also: God
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See also: Thiers, who was at this See also: time See also: minister of public See also: works, now commissioned him to execute the two See also: groups of " See also: Peace " and " War," placed at each See also: side of the Arc de Triomphe
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This last, which established his reputation, he reproduced in marble in the salon of 1839
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The French capital contains numerous examples of the sculptural works of Etex, which included mythological and religious subjects besides a See also: great number of portraits
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His paintings include the subjects of See also: Eurydice and the martyrdom of See also: Saint See also: Sebastian, and among the best known of his architectural productions are the See also: tomb of See also: Napoleon I. in the Invalides and a monument of the revolution of 1848
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Etex wrote a number of essays on subjects connected with the arts
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The last See also: year of his See also: life was spent at See also: Nice, and he died at Chaville (See also: Seine-et-See also: Oise) on the 14th of See also: July 1888
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Mangeant, Antoine Etex, peintre, sculpteur et architecte, 18o8-i888 (Paris, 1894)
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