Léon-Alexandre Delhomme

Léon-Alexandre Delhomme (20 July 1841, Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche – 1895 or 1893, Paris) was French sculptor. He is immortalised by a statue in the cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.[1]

Léon-Alexandre Delhomme
Born20 July 1841
Tournon-sur-Rhône
Died16 March 1895
Paris
NationalityFrance

Life

He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, in the studio of Augustin Dumont (1801–1884) and of Joseph-Hugues Fabisch.

In 1867, he was elected to the municipal council of Paris.[2]

Works

Democrites meditating on the seat of the soul, garden of the musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
  • Statue of the Republic, in the main amphitheatre of the Sorbonne (1889).[3] She is shown as a wise woman between an urn and a lion "removing the veil of ignorance from a young Frenchman", in one of the university's least neutral sculptures (commissioned by Soitoux).[4]
  • Statue of Louis Blanc (1811–1882) in bronze, melted down during World War Two, located on Place Monge (Paris, 5th arrondissement)
  • Above the entrance to the Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville - Paris (4th arr.)
  • Bust of the French doctor Stanislas Laugier (1799–1872)
  • Statue Defiance known as The Gaul[5]
  • Démocrite méditant sur le siège de l'âme.
  • Standing warrior (Gaul) [6]
  • Medal of Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand[7]
  • Cast iron
  • Vercingetorix,
  • Wounded Gaul,
  • Joan of Arc.

Notes

  1. In Le guide des effigies de Paris, by Jean-Pierre Thomas, Éditeur L'Harmattan, 2003, p. 130, ISBN 978-2-7475-2314-1
  2. Member of the municipal council of Paris.
  3. Republic, 1889.
  4. A République. Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Defiance.
  6. Standing warrior. Archived 2009-03-24 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Medal Archived 2008-12-02 at the Wayback Machine of Alphand.
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