Gustave Michel
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Gustave Frédéric Michel (Script error: No such module "IPA".; 1851–1924) was a French sculptor, and medallist,[1][2] according to Marina Warner "one of the most famous sculptors of the first decades of this (twentieth) century in France," although virtually unknown today. He also taught sculpture; among his pupils was the American Edith Howland.[3]
Works
- Monument commemorating the French Revolution, Châtellerault (Vienna), 1890
- two figural groups on the supports of Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, circa 1900
- Monument to Jules Ferry and Autumn, the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, 1910
- 1924 Medal Occupation of the Ruhr.
Gallery
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La Pensée (1896), Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille.
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Dreaming (1897), Luxembourg Museum in Paris.[4]
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Sculpture group (c. 1900), Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Paris.
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Ruhr Occupation, French Art Medal 1924 by Michel. Obverse: Female r. playing a natural trumpet.
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Ruhr Occupation, French Art Medal 1924 by Michel. Reverse: The devil riding on a unicycle l., and playing a French horn.
![Dreaming (1897), Luxembourg Museum in Paris.[4]](/wiki143/index.php?title=File:EB1911_Plate_IX._v24,_pg.510,_Fig_1.jpg){kind=link}
References
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- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica, ed. 1911, vol. 24, pg. 510, Plate IX.
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- Monuments and Maidens: the Allegory of the Female Form, Marina Warner, Vintage, 1996