JEAN

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• BAPTISTE

BAPTISTE

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• CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)

CLAUDE

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• EUGENE

EUGENE

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• GUILLAUME
• JEAN BAPTISTE CLAUDE EUGENE GUILLAUME (1822-1905)

GUILLAUME (1822-1905)  , French sculptor, was born at Montbard on the 4th of July 1822, and studied under Cavelier, Millet, and Barrias, at the lcole des Beaux-Arts, which he entered in 1841, and where he gained the prix de Rome in 1845 with " Theseus finding on arock his Father's Sword." He became director of the 1 cole des Beaux-Arts in 1864, and director-general of Fine Arts from 1878 to 1879, when the office was suppressed . Many of his works have been bought for public galleries, and his monuments are to be found in the public squares of the chief cities of France . At Rheims there is his bronze statue of " Colbert," at Dijon his " Rameau " monument . The Luxembourg Museum has his " Anacreon " (1852), " Les Gracques " (1853), " Faucheur (1855), and the marble bust of " Mgr Darboy "; the Versailles Museum the portrait of " Thiers "; the Sorbonne Library the marble bust of " Victor le Clerc, doyen de la faculte des lettres." Other works of his are at Trinity Church, St Germain l'Auxerrois, and the church of St Clotilde, Paris . Guillaume was a prolific writer, principally on sculpture and architecture of the Classic period and of the Italian Renaissance . He was elected member of the Academie Francaise in 1862, and in 1891 was sent to Rome as director of the Academie de France in that city . He was also elected an honorary member of the Royal Academy, London, 1869, on the institution of that class .