PAUL DE

See also:

• PAUL DE VIGNE (1843-1901)

VIGNE (1843-1901)  , Belgian sculptor, was born at Ghent . He was trained by his father, a statuary, and began by exhibiting his " Fra Angelico da Fiesole " at the Ghent Salon in 1868 . In 1872 he exhibited at the Brussels Salon a marble statue, " Heliotrope " (Ghent Gallery), and in 1875, at Brussels, " Beatrix " and " Domenica." He was employed by the government to execute caryatides for the conservatoire at Brussels . In 1876 at the Antwerp Salon he had busts of E . Hiel and W . Wilson, which were afterwards placed in the communal museum at Brussels . Until 1882 he lived in Paris, where he produced the marble statue " Immortality " (Brussels Gallery), and " The Crowning of Art," a bronze group on the facade of the Palais des Beaux-Arts at Brussels . His monument to the popular heroes, Jean Breydel and Pierre de Coninck, was unveiled at Bruges in 1887 . At his death he left unfinished his principal work, the Anspach monument, which was erected at Brussels under the direction of the architect Janlet with the co-operation of various sculptors . Among other notable works by De Vigne may be mentioned " Volumnia " (1875); " Poverella " (1878); a bronze bust of " Psyche " (Brussels Gallery), of which there is an ivory replica; the marble statue of Marnix de Ste Aldegonde in the Square du Sablon, Brussels; the Metdepenningen monument in the cemetery at Ghent; and the monument to Canon de Haerne at Courtrai . See E . L .

Detage,

Les Artistes Belges contemporains (Brussels), and O . G . Destree, The Renaissance of Sculpture in Belgium (London, 1895) .