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DALOU, JULES (1838-1902)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 777 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DALOU, JULES (1838-1902) , French sculptor, was the pupil of Carpeaux and Duret, and combined the vivacity and richness of the one with the academic purity and scholarship of the other. He is one of the most brilliant virtuosos of the French school, admirable alike in

taste

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

, execution and arrangement. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1867, but when in 1871 the troubles of the Commune broke out in Paris, he took

refuge

REFUGE

in England, where he rapidly made a name through his appointment at

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Kensington. Here he laid the foundation of that

great

GREAT

improvement which resulted in the development of the modern British school of sculpture, and at the same time executed a remarkable

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of terra-cotta statuettes and groups, such as " A French Peasant Woman " (of which a bronze version under the title of " Maternity " is erected outside the Royal Exchange), the group of two Boulogne women called " The Reader " and " A Woman of Boulogne telling her Beads." He returned to France in 1879 and produced a number of masterpieces. His

great

GREAT

relief of " Mirabeau replying to M. de

Dreux

DREUX

-Breze," exhibited in 1883 and now at the Palais Bourbon, and the highly decorative panel, "

Triumph

TRIUMPH (triumphus)

of the Republic," were followed in 1885 by " The Procession of Silenus." For the city of Paris he executed his most elaborate and splendid achievement, the vast monument, " The

Triumph

TRIUMPH (triumphus)

of the Republic," erected, after twenty years'

work

WORK

, in the Place de la Nation, showing a symbolical figure of the Republic, aloft on her car,

drawn

DRAWN

by lions led by Liberty, attended by Labour and Justice, and followed by Peace. It is somewhat in the

taste

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

of the Louis XIV. period, ornate, but exquisite in every detail. Within a few days there was also inaugurated his great "Monument to Alphand" (1899), which almost equalled in the success achieved the monument to Delacroix in the Luxembourg Gardens. Dalou, who gained the Grand Prix of the International exhibition of 1889, and was an officer of the Legion of Honour, was one of the founders of the New Salon (Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts), and was the first president of the sculpture section. In

portraiture

PORTRAITURE

, whether statues or busts, his

work

WORK

is not less remarkable.

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