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


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