Bernard Seurre
Illustration — Bernard Seurre (1865) • Illustration — Molière by Seurre the elder, cour Napoléon of the palais du Louvre Bernard-Gabriel Seurre or Seurre the Elder (11 July 1795 – 3 October 1867) was a French sculptor. His younger brother Charles Émile Seurre (1798–1858) was also a sculptor.
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Bernard Seurre

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- Full name
- Bernard Gabriel Seurre.
- Born
- 1795. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- sculptor.
- Education
- French Academy in Rome.
- Teachers
- Pierre Cartellier.
- Known for
- Molière and Jean Goujon.
- Honours
- Prix de Rome and resident at the Villa Medici.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Bernard Seurre (1865) • Illustration — Molière by Seurre the elder, cour Napoléon of the palais du Louvre Bernard-Gabriel Seurre or Seurre the Elder (11 July 1795 – 3 October 1867) was a French sculptor. His younger brother Charles Émile Seurre (1798–1858) was also a sculptor.
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Bernard Seurre studied at French Academy in Rome. Training under Pierre Cartellier is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Works named in the authority record are Molière and Jean Goujon. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome and resident at the Villa Medici.
Born in Paris, Bernard Seurre was a student of the sculptor Pierre Cartellier. In 1818 Bernard Seurre won the Prix de Rome for sculpture with a relief on the subject Chilonis imploring mercy for her husband Cleombrotus He then produced sculptures for the Arc de Triomphe between 1833 and 1836 and produced a design for a sculpture on top of it in 1833 (though this was never realized). He died in Paris.
Arc de triomphe
Arc de triomphe
• The Battle of Aboukir, bas-relief, stone, east façade (champs-Élysées side), above The Apotheosis of Napoleon I and The Triumph of 1810 by Jean-Pierre Cortot • Entablature frieze, west façade (avenue de la Grande-Armée side), right half • Entablature frieze, south façade (avenue Kléber side), left half • Design for sculpture on top of the Arc de triomphe - allegory of France victorious (1833), drawing, Paris, musée d'Orsay
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Other
• Molière standing in meditation, over-life-size, bronze, Paris, Musée du Louvre • Molière, bronze, Paris, 1844, fontaine Molière, junction of rue de Richelieu and la rue Molière • Jean de La Fontaine, statue, marble, Paris, palais de l'Institut • Modesty, statue, Paris, cimetière du Père-Lachaise, tomb of Pierre Cartellier, left side • Portrait of Nicolas Béhuchet, admiral of France, died 1340 (vers 1838), bust, plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
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- 1.« Cléombrote esposo de Chélonis, fille de Leónidas I, rey de Esparta.Poco tiempo después de este himeneo, Cléombrote usurpó el trono e hizo condenar a su padre político al exilio. No goza mucho tiempo de su poder. Los atenienses, cansados de su gobierno tiránico, recordaron Léonidas. Volvió y quiso castigar a su yerno. Habiendo sabido que se había refugiado en el templo de Neptuno, donde fue rendido, acompañado por amigos y por soldados, bien resueltos a matarlo; pero así como iba apoderarse de a eso, Chélonis que olvida las culpas de su esposo lo reúne en sus brazos con uno de sus niños y, en esta posición, pidió la gracia de vida a su padre. " Plutarco, " Rey Agis ", 11-6-18 ,
- 2.Villa Médici . Consultado el 19/5/2009
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