Aimé Millet
Aimé Millet (September 28, 1819 – January 14, 1891) was a French sculptor who was a professor at the École des Arts décoratifs.
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Aimé Millet
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- Born
- 1819.
- Died
- 1891.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- sculptor, medalist, painter and engraver.
- Known for
- François Michel Le Tellier de Louvois, Cassandra Placing Herself under the Protection of Pallas and Vercingetorix Monument.
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Biography
Born in Paris, Millet was the son of miniaturist Frédéric Millet (1796–1859) and uncle to Chicago architectural decorator Julian Louis Millet (1856–1923). He studied and made first in 1836 at the École des Beaux Arts with David d'Angers and Viollet-le-Duc, who was later to design the base of Millet's statue of Vercingetorix in Alesia. In 1840 Millet began to produce his early works, in 1859 received the Légion d'honneur, and in February 1870 was appointed professor at the École des Arts décoratifs. He was a friend of sculptor Pierre Louis Rouillard and his students included Louis Majorelle, Berthe Morisot, John Walz, Henri-Camille Danger and François Pompon. Millet died in Paris on January 14, 1891, and is buried in Montmartre Cemetery.
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Aimé Millet appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a sculptor and painter (28 September 1819 – 14 January 1891). Aimé Millet was born in Paris (28 September 1819) and died in Paris (14 January 1891). The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek records Paris as a place of activity.
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- 1.Né à Charlieu en 1796 et mort à Paris le .
- 2.Né le à Paris et mort à dans la même ville le .
- 3.Biographie d'Émile Millet sur sylvianemas.free.fr.
- 4.Né en 1856 à New York et mort en 1923, qui fut un architecte renommé à Chicago.
- 5.Qui deviendra l’École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs.
- 6.Site officiel de la SNBA, sur salondesbeauxarts.com
- 7.Appellation de l'École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs à cette époque.
- 8.Rémi Dalisson, « Les racines d’une commémoration : les fêtes de la Revanche et les inaugurations de monuments aux morts de 1870 en France (1871-1914) », Revue historique des armées, , .
- 9.Archives de Paris , acte de décès , année 1891 (page 17/33).
- 10.Registre journalier d'inhumation de Paris Montmartre de 1891, en date du (vue 4/31)
- 11.Institué par décret le .
- 12.Commentaires sur la guerre des Gaules, VII, 29.
- 13.« Monument à Vercingétorix – Alise-Sainte-Reine », notice sur e-monumen.net.
- 14.« Monument à Denis Papin – Blois », sur e-monumen.net.
- 15.« Monument à Edgar Quinet – Bourg-en-Bresse (fondu) », sur e-monumen.net.
- 16.« Monument à Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac – Limoges » sur e-monumen.net.
- 17.« Anatole de la Forge » sur metmuseum.org.
- 18.Henri Dumesnil, Aimé Millet, souvenirs intimes, Paris, Lemerre, 1891, .
- 19.« L’Amérique du sud- Les continents – Musée d’Orsay – Paris (75007) » sur e-monumen.net.
- 20.« Modèle de la statue de George Sand élevée à la Châtre » sur parismuseescollections.paris.fr.
- 21.sylvianemas.free.fr.
- 22.« Monument à Chateaubriand – Saint-Malo (fondu) », sur e-monumen.net.
- 23.« Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture et gravure des artistes vivants, exposés au Palais des Champs-Élysée le 25 mai 1878 », Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1878 (en ligne).
- 24.article de Patrick Le Nouëne Chemellier, Georges Petit de (Baron) Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online 2009 https://www.degruyter.com/database/AKL/entry/_10161371/html accès payant .
- 25.Bénézit B00157341
- 26.Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessin, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au Palais des Champs-Élysées le. Editions Paul Dupont. 1892.
- 27.Article Aimé Millet Le Figaro 16 janvier 1892 3/4 .
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Dictionnaire Bénézit.
- Henri Dumesnil, Aimé Millet, souvenirs intimes, Paris, Lemerre, 1891 (en ligne).
- André Warnod, La vraie bohème de Henri Murger, P. Dupont, 1947.
- James Mackay, Le Dictionnaire des sculpteurs en bronze, antique, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Collectors Club, 1977.
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