Léon-Alexandre Delhomme Explained

Léon-Alexandre Delhomme
Birth Date:	20 July 1841
Birth Place:	Tournon-sur-Rhône
Death Date:	16 March 1895
Death Place:	Paris
Nationality:	French

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

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

• 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,
2. http://www.fontesdart.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=264&Itemid=90 Member of the municipal council of Paris.
3. http://www.linternaute.com/savoir/grands-chantiers/sorbonne/grand-amphitheatre/7.shtml Republic, 1889.
4. http://www.sorbonne.fr/document173.html A République.
5. http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/caran_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_98=Cote&VALUE_98=F/21/*7649 Defiance.
6. http://www.trocadero.com/andysculpturegallery/items/710567/en1.html Standing warrior.
7. http://www.ewolfs.com/past_auctions/may_art/321.html Medal