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See also:MARIUS See also:JEAN ANTONIN See also:MERCIE (1845– )
, See also:French sculptor and painter, was See also:born in See also:Toulouse on the 3oth of See also:October 1845
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He entered the l cote See also:des See also:Beaux Arts, See also:Paris, and studied under See also:Falguiere and See also:Jouffroy, and in 1868 gained the See also:Grand Prix
de See also:Rome
.
His first See also:great popular successes were the " See also:David " and " Gloria Victis," which was shown and received the See also:medal of See also:honour of the See also:Salon
.
The See also:bronze was subsequently placed in the Square See also:Montholon
.
" The See also:Genius of the Arts " (1877), a See also:relief, is in the Tuileries, in substitution for See also:Barye's " See also:Napoleon III."; a similar See also:work for the See also:tomb of See also:Michelet (1879) is in the See also:cemetery of Pere la See also:Chaise; and in the same See also:year See also:Mercie produced the statue of See also:Arago with accompanying reliefs, now erected at See also:Perpignan
.
In 1882 he repeated his great patriotic success of 1874 with a See also:group " Quand See also:Memel" replicas of which have been set up at See also:Belfort and in the See also:garden of the Tuileries
.
" Le Souvenir " (1885), a See also:marble statue for the tomb of Mme See also: Mercie was appointed See also:professor of See also:drawing and See also:sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and was elected a member of the See also:Academic Francaise in 1891, after being awarded the biennial See also:prize of the See also:institute of goo in 1887 . |
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