Alexandre Falguière

[1] Falguière's first bronze statue of importance was Le Vainqueur au Combat de Coqs (Victor of the Cockfight) (1864), and Tarcisius the Christian Boy-Martyr followed in 1867; both were exhibited in the Luxembourg Museum[1] and are now in the Musée d'Orsay.[2] His more important monuments are those to Admiral Courbet (1890) at Abbeville and the famous Joan of Arc.He sculpted The Dancer, based on Cléo de Mérode which today is also in the Musée d'Orsay.His Wrestlers (1875) and Fan and Dagger (1882; a defiant Spanish woman) were in the Luxembourg, and other pictures of importance are The Beheading of St John the Baptist (1877), The Sphinx (1883), Acis and Galatea (1885), Old Woman and Child (1886) and In the Bull Slaughter-House.[1] Falguière died in Paris in 1900 and was interred there in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, where his monument is by his pupil Marqueste.
Alexandre Falguière (portrait by Alexis Axilette [ fr ] )
Falguière's Victor of the Cockfight , book engraving c. 1900 , with added drapery
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