Gustave Michel

Gustave Frédéric Michel (1851–1924) was a French sculptor, and medallist,[1][2] according to Marina Warner "one of the most famous sculptors of the first decades of this (twentieth) century in France," although virtually unknown today. He also taught sculpture; among his pupils was the American Edith Howland.[3]

Gustave Michel

Works

• Monument commemorating the French Revolution, Châtellerault (Vienna), 1890
• two figural groups on the supports of Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, circa 1900
• Monument to Jules Ferry and Autumn, the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, 1910
• 1924 Medal Occupation of the Ruhr.

Gallery

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  La Pensée (1896), Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille.
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  Dreaming (1897), Luxembourg Museum in Paris.[4]
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  Sculpture group (c. 1900), Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Paris.
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  Ruhr Occupation, French Art Medal 1924 by Michel. Obverse: Female r. playing a natural trumpet.
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  Ruhr Occupation, French Art Medal 1924 by Michel. Reverse: The devil riding on a unicycle l., and playing a French horn.

References

1. L. Forrer, Michel, Gustave (1909). Biographical Dictionary of Medallists. Volume 4. London: Spink & Son Ltd. p. 66.
2. L. Forrer, Michel, Gustave (1930). Biographical Dictionary of Medallists. Volume 8. London: Spink & Son Ltd. p. 58.
3. Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
4. Encyclopædia Britannica, ed. 1911, vol. 24, pg. 510, Plate IX.

• Monuments and Maidens: the Allegory of the Female Form, Marina Warner, Vintage, 1996

External links

• Gustave Michel in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website