Eugène Delaplanche

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Eve after the Fall , 1869, Paris, Musée d'Orsay

Eugène Delaplanche , (born February 28, 1836 in Belleville (now Paris ), † January 10, 1891 in Paris), was a particularly successful French sculptor during the Second Empire .

Life

As a student of the sculptor Francisque Joseph Duret , he won the Prix ​​de Rome and the privilege associated with it to stay in Rome in the Villa Medici from 1864 to 1867 .

Delaplanche attracted attention with his first works, a child riding a turtle and a shepherd , which increased when in 1870 he exhibited his somewhat coarse, but healthy, naturalistic Eve after the fall of man .

Among the later works, Saint Agnes , the marble statue of the message of love , the marble group The Maternal Education , the Virgin with the Lily and the Statue of Music found great applause because of the perfect natural truth in the treatment of forms.

Delaplanche was also involved in the decoration of public buildings with plastic jewelry, such as the parish churches of St-Eustache and St-Joseph-des-Nations in Paris, the Paris Opera by Charles Garnier , which was then under construction - for which he also in 1881 the seated figure of the composer Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1881) created - and the Palais du Trocadéro, which was built on the occasion of the World Exhibition in 1878 and was located on the site of today's Palais de Chaillot .

One year before his death, the artist exhibited the much-acclaimed monument in honor of the Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux François-Auguste-Ferdinand Donnet (1795–1882) for the Cathedral of St-André in Bordeaux in the Salon 1890 .

Delaplanche died in Paris in 1891 at the age of 55. It rests on the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris.

honors and awards

  • 1864: Prix de Rome
  • 1878: Medal of Honor at the World's Fair

Selection of works

Enfant monté sur une tortue , 1866, in the stairwell of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille
Africa , 1877/78, Paris, esplanade in front of the Musée d'Orsay
  • Child Riding a Tortoise (Enfant monté sur une tortue), Salon 1866, Marseille , Musée des Beaux-Arts
  • Eve after the fall of man (Eve après la chute), marble sculpture, 1867/69, Paris, Musée d'Orsay
  • The terrace (La Terrasse), approx. 1872, sopra porte for the foyer of the Opéra Garnier , original in situ, plaster design in the Musée d'Orsay
  • La Charpente (), approx. 1872, sopra porte for the foyer of the Opéra Garnier, original in situ, plaster draft in the Musée d'Orsay
  • Saint Agnes (Sainte Agnes), marble statue, 1873, Paulhan (Languedoc-Roussillon), Ste-Croix de Paulhan church
  • Maternal Education (L'Education maternelle) - 1873, Paris, Square Samuel Rousseau
  • Holy Virgin with the Lily (Vierge au Lys), marble statue, 1874/78, Paris, Musée d'Orsay
  • Saint Joseph (Saint Joseph), marble statue, 1875, signed, 100 × 60 cm, Boulogne-sur-Mer (Nord-Pas-de-Calais), Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée-Conception church
  • Allegory of Music (Allégorie de la Musique), Salon 1877, silver-plated bronze
  • The Sacred Heart appears to Saint Marguerite-Marie Alacoque (L'Apparition du Sacré-Cœur à Sainte-Marguerite-Marie Alacoque), marble sculpture, 1878, Boulogne-sur-Mer (Nord-Pas-de-Calais), Notre-Dame church -de-l'Immaculée-Conception
  • Africa (L'Afrique), created in 1877/78 for the former Palais de Tokyo, today on the esplanade of the Musée d'Orsay.
  • Aurora (Aurore), 1884, marble statue based on the plaster model exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1882. Paris, Archives nationales
  • Circé, Montpellier, Fabre Museum
  • Eve before the Fall of Man (Eve avant la chute), marble sculpture, 1890/91, Paris, Musée d'Orsay
  • Holy Family (Sainte Famille), Paris, St-Jacques-des-Nations church
  • Allegory of the Air (Allégorie de l'Air), bronze, Compiègne , Musée Antoine Vivenel
  • Allegory of Water (Allégorie de l'Eau), bronze, Compiègne, Musée Antoine Vivenel

Web links

Commons : Eugène Delaplanche  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Eugène Delaplanche on the website of the Cimetière du Père Lachaise
personal data
SURNAME Delaplanche, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Belleville, Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1891
Place of death Paris