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Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière (also given as Jean-Joseph-Alexandre Falguière, or in short Alexandre Falguière) ( 1831 - 1900), French sculptor and painter, was born at Toulouse. A pupil of the École des Beaux Arts, he won the Prix de Rome in 1859; he was awarded the medal of honor at the Paris Salon in 1868 and was appointed officer of the Legion d'honneur in 1878. His first bronze statue of importance was the Victor of the CockfightJean-Leon Gerome (1847) A cockfight is a contest, held in a cockpit between two fighting cocks ( roosters) trained to severely injure and/or kill one another. Usually wagers are made on the outcome of the match, the surviving bird being declared the winne ( 1864Events January March January 21 Maori Wars: The Tauranga Campaign starts. February 27 American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. March 1- Alejandro Mon Menendez takes office as Prime Minist), and Tarcisus the ChristianChristian cross and its many variations are widely recognized as an ancient Christian symbol. Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament. Although Christians generally chara Boy- Martyr followed in 1867Events January 8 African-American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia January 11 Benito Juarez becomes Mexican president again January 30 Emperor Komei of Japan dies. Crown Prince Mutsuhito is expected to become the next Emperor of J; both were exhibited in the Luxembourg Museum and are now in the Musée d'OrsayThe Musee d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, situated on the left bank of the River Seine. It holds mainly French art from 1848 to 1914: paintings, sculptures, furniture, objets d'art and photography. The building was originally a railway station, built in 190. His more important monuments are those to Admiral Courbet (1890) at AbbevilleThis article refers to the city in France. For other places see here. Abbeville is a city in the Picardie region in the north of France. Location Abbeville is located on the Somme River, 12 m. from its mouth in the English Channel, and 28 m. nothwest of A and the famous Joan of ArcJoan of Arc ( January 6, 1412 May 30, 1431) (also Jeanne d'Arc Jehanne la Pucelle in French, and Maid of Orleans is a national heroine of France and saint of the Catholic Church. During the Hundred Years' War she led the French against the English and was. Among more ideal work are Eve ( 1880), Diana ( 1882 and 1891), Woman and Peacock (a. k. a. Juno and The Peacock), and The Poet, astride his Pegasus spreading wings for flight. He sculpted The Dancer, based on Cléo de Mérode which today is also in the Musée d'Orsay.His Triumph of the Republic ( 1881 - 1886), a vast quadriga for the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, is perhaps more amazingly full of life than others of his works, all of which reveal this quality of vitality in superlative degree.
To these works should be added his monuments to Cardinal Lavigerie and General de La Fayette (the latter in Washington, DC), and his statues of Alphonse de Lamartine ( 1876) and St Vincent dePaul ( 1879), as well as the Honoré de Balzac, which he executed for the Socité des gens de lettres on their rejection of that by Auguste Rodin; and the busts of Carolus-Duran and Coquelin Cadet ( 1896).
Falguière was a painter as well as a sculptor, but somewhat inferior in merit. He displays a fine sense of colour and tone,added to the qualities of life and vigour that he instils into his plastic work. His Wrestlers ( 1875) and Fan and Dagger ( 1882; a defiant Spanish woman) were in the Luxembourg, and other pictures of importance are The Beheading of St John the Baptist ( 1877), The Sphinx ( 1883), Acis and Galatea (1885), Old Woman and Child (1886) and In the Bull Slaughter-House. He became a member of the Institut de France ( Académie des Beaux-Arts) in 1882.
Alexandre Falguière died in Paris in 1900 and was interred there in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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