Aimé Millet

Aimé Millet, photograph by Nadar , around 1856–1858

Aimé Millet: Apollon on the roof of the Paris Opera

Aimé Millet (born September 28, 1819 in Paris , † January 14, 1891 ibid) was a French sculptor.

Life

Millet came from a family of artists; his father was the miniature painter Frederick Millet (1796-1859), his nephew was Julian Louis Millet (1856-1923).

At the age of 17 Millet came to the École des Beaux-Arts (EBA) in 1836 . He made friends there u. a. with Pierre Jean David d'Angers and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , who were studying there at the same time. His earliest works were created around 1840/41. As a result of some government contracts, in addition to the financial aspects, his social breakthrough soon came. In 1870 he was appointed to the École des Arts décoratifs and this office he held for almost ten years.

Millet died in Paris on January 14, 1891, at the age of 70, and found his final resting place on the Cimetière de Montmartre .

Honors

1859 Knight of the Legion of Honor

Student (selection)

Louis Majorelle (1859-1926)
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895)
François Pompon (1855-1933)

Works (selection)

Vercingétorix

Vercingetorix statue in Alesia (together with Eugène Viollet-le-Duc).
François-René de Chateaubriand statue for Saint-Malo , Ille-et-Vilaine department .
Cassandre se met sous la protection de Pallas for the Jardin des Tuileries . 1877.
Statue of Phidias for the Jardin de Luxembourg . 1887.
Statues of Apollon , Euterpe and Polyhymnia on the roof of the Paris Opera . 1869/69.
Allegorical statue Amérique du Sud for the World's Fair . 1878.

Individual evidence

↑ one of the most important of these was the Vercingetorix statue commissioned by Napoleon III.

literature

James Mackay: The dictionary of sculptors in bronze . Antique Collectors' Club Woodbridge, Suffolk 1995, ISBN 1-85149-110-4 (reprint of 1977 edition).
Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et docunmentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . New edition Grund, Paris 1999ff.

Web links

Commons : Aimé Millet - collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Millet, Aimé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	January 14, 1891
Place of death	Paris

[1] the most important of these was the Vercingetorix statue commissioned by Napoleon III.