Alphonse Dumilatre Explained

Jean Alphonse Edme Achille Dumilatre
Birth Date:12 April 1844
Birth Place:Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Death Place:Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, France
Nationality:French
Education:École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
Known For:Sculpture
Notable Works:
Awards:Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur

Jean Alphonse Edme Achille Dumilatre, also known as Achille Dumilâtre,[1] (12 April 1844, Bordeaux, Gironde –, Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne) was a French sculptor.

Biography

A student of Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and Jules Cavelier at the École des beaux-arts de Paris, Alphonse Dumilatre became known especially at the Salon de Paris between 1866 and 1878, where some of his works such as Le Général Decaen, Le Colonel Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau, and Montesquieu[2] were acquired by the State.

Among his other works, the Monument of Joseph Croce-Spinelli (bronze) in Paris at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, the Bust of (bronze) in Veracruz (Mexico), The Assembly of the Greeks, Dispute of Achilles and Agamemnon (Musée des beaux-arts de Bordeaux, work destroyed), Young Harvester (1888) in Paris at the Jardin du Luxembourg,[3] the Monument to Pierre Leroux (1903) in Boussac (Creuse), and the marble statue of Montesquieu (1912) in the garden of the Four Columns at the Palais Bourbon in Paris.

His Monument to Jean de La Fontaine erected in the in Paris in 1891 was melted down in 1942 as part of the Mobilization of non-ferrous metals.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. His name is also spelled as Jean Dumilâtre.
  2. Plaster intended for the Faculty of Law in Bordeaux.
  3. http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html?no_cache=1&zsz=5&lnum=1 Description of the work on the Musée d'Orsay website
  4. http://paris1900.lartnouveau.com/paris16/jardins/jardin_du_ranelagh/statues.htm « The statues of the Jardin du Ranelagh »