Laurent Marqueste

L'Art in front of the Paris City Hall

Velléda Musée des Augustins, Toulouse

Laurent Marqueste (born June 12, 1848 in Toulouse , † April 5, 1920 in Paris ) was a French sculptor. As a student of François Jouffroy and Alexandre Falguière , he received the Prix ​​de Rome in 1871 . As a result he was able to study at the Villa Medici from 1872 and 1875 . From 1874 Marqueste regularly took part in the salons and world exhibitions, where he presented his works. He remained true to the classical traditions in his work and can therefore be classified as a neo-baroque artist. After receiving numerous awards for his work in the 1870s, he won a gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 . He won the Grand Prix at the world exhibition in 1900 . The reputation that he had acquired with these awards brought him public contracts, especially from the city council of Paris. He designed allegories , mythological groups and historical portraits, which are to this day in the Tuileries , in the Jardin du Luxembourg , in front of the City Hall of Paris or on the Pont Alexandre III . In 1900 he also created the sculpture for the grave of his teacher Alexandre Falguière in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise cemetery . Between 1893 and 1900 Laurent Marqueste worked as a professor at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . From 1894 was also a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts .

Works

• La Flagellation Du Christ (bas-relief, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, 1871, winner of the Prix de Rome)
• L'Art ( Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville , Paris IV , 1874)
• Velléda ( Musée des Augustins , Toulouse , 1877, exhibit at the Salon 1877)
• Monument to Ferdinand Fabre ( Jardin du Luxembourg , Paris, 1880)
• Henri IV ( Musée Condé , Chantilly , 1880)
• Cupidon ( Musée d'Orsay , Paris, exhibit at the Salon 1882)
• La France de Louis XIV ( Pont Alexandre III , Paris, 1887–1900)
• Persée et la Gorgone (marble, Musée des Beaux-Arts , Lyon , 1890).
• Monument to Barye ( Square Barye , Paris, 1894).
• Kneeling Cupid , bronze 72 cm, around 1900. Franke Kunsthandel, Bamberg 2016.
• Statue de la Geographie ( Sorbonne , Paris, 1901).
• Victor Hugo ( Sorbonne , Paris, 1901).
• Monument to Waldeck-Rousseau (Tuileries Garden, Paris, 1909)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Notice d'autorité personne. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, November 9, 2012, accessed December 7, 2013 . 
2. ^ Nella Buscot: Biography Laurent Marqueste. 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 .