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Antonin Mercié

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Numerous other statues, portrait busts, and medallions came from the sculptor's hand, which gained him a medal of honor at the
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Mercié was appointed Professor of Drawing and Sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts, and was elected a member of the
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was among his many students at the École des Beaux-Arts. He died in Paris on December 12, 1916.
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head and sheathing his long sword. Numerous reproductions exist, most of which incorporate a
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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that covers David's genitalia but not his buttocks. The lifesize original is now in the
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Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of Robert E. Lee, May 29, 1890. Richmond, Virginia
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Inventory of American Sculpture, Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
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in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
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In 1882 he repeated his great patriotic success of 1874 with a group
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in 1887. He was subsequently elected to grand officier of the
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at the age of 23. His first great popular successes were the
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in 1891, after being awarded the biennial prize of the
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Index

Marius Jean Antonin Mercie

Ramon Casas
MNAC
Toulouse
Paris
sculptor
medallist
painter

École des Beaux-Arts
Alexandre Falguière
François Jouffroy
Grand Prix de Rome
David
Gloria Victis
Paris Salon
bronze
Square Montholon
Biblical
Goliath
Donatello's David
turbanned
loincloth
Musée d'Orsay
Académie française
Institute of 800
Légion d'honneur
Société des artistes français
Marie-Antoinette Demagnez

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