Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk Explained

Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk (18 February 1820 – 23 July 1885), or Alexandre Schoenewerk, was a French sculptor. He was a student of David d'Angers, and was named a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1873.^[1]

Selected works

• La jeune Tarantine (Young Tarantine), marble, 1871 (Musée d'Orsay)
• L'Europe (Musée d'Orsay square)
• Jeune fille à la Fontaine, marble, 1873
• The bather, marble
• Andromeda, bronze

References

• Jane Turner, The Dictionary of Art, Grove, 1996. .
• Hermann Alexander Müller, Allgemeines Künstler-lexicon, Literarische Anstalt, Rütten & Loening, 1901, page 219.
• Artnet entry

Notes and References

1. The Iconographic Encyclopaedia of the Arts and Scien: Sculpture and painting, 1887, page 138