Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier

He was appointed a chevalier of the Legion d'honneur in 1888, and an officier in 1903. Combined with his realistic style, many of Coronnier's themes are progressive and socially minded, for example his Les Miséreux (the Destitute), Les Pauvres gens (the Poor), and L'inoculation et la fermentation (Inoculation and Fermentation), all to be seen at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.

Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier studied at École des beaux-arts de Lille, Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Works named in the authority record are Maternity and Jeanne d'Arc. Work by Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier is recorded in the collections of Louvre Museum, Luxembourg Museum, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille and Museum Baron Martin. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome, Officer of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the Legion of Honour.

• Printemps (Spring), 1883 • Maternity, now in the Place Adolphe-Chérioux, 15th arrondissement of Paris, 1899 • allegorical facade figures of Education and Vigilance for the Hôtel de Ville, Tours, circa 1900, for architect Victor Laloux • allegorical figure of Sculpture (1900), facade of the Grand Palais, Paris • The Sower, now at La Piscine Museum, Roubaix, 1907 • figures representing cotton-gathering and sheep-shearing, Hôtel de Ville, Roubaix, 1911, for architect Victor Laloux • the figure of Music, holding a lyre, for the facade of the Opéra de Lille, completed 1914, inaugurated 1923, for architect Louis M. Cordonnier • Monument to Louis Pasteur, in Lille • Jeanne d'Arc, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier is recorded as having studied at École des beaux-arts de Lille, Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome.