Emile Guillemin

He showed work at the Salon of Paris from 1870 to 1899, and in 1897 received an honourable mention there. In 2008 his 1884 bronze sculpture Femme Kabyle d'Algerie and Janissaire du Sultan Mahmoud II (Kabyle woman from Algeria and Janissary of Sultan Mahmound II) sold for $1,202,500 plus auction fees in New York to a private collector through Sotheby's Auction House. Some versions of his Cavalier Arabe are signed both by him and by Alfred Barye, suggesting a collaboration. Emile Coriolan Hippolyte Guillemin made his debut in the Paris Salon of 1870 where he exhibited a pair of Roman Gladiators, Retaire and Mirmillon, drawn from antiquity. Guillemin specialized in figurative works and was greatly inspired by the Middle East and its exoticism. Representations of Indian falconers, Turkish maidens and Japanese courtesans firmly established Guillemin's reputation as an Orientalist sculptor from the mid-1870s.

Training under Jean-Jules Salmson and Antoine-Louis Barye is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is bronze sculpture. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are realism. Antoine-Louis Barye is recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Works named in the authority record are "Kabyle woman from Algeria" and "Janissary of Sultan Mahmud II", The Arab Horseman by Guillemin and Low cabinet. Work by Emile Guillemin is recorded in the collections of Louvre Museum, Musée d'Orsay, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Musée d'art et d'histoire de Toul. Distinctions recorded are honorable mention.

• Name — Émile Guillemin • Birth Name — Émile-Coriolan Hippolyte Guillemin • Born — 16 October 1841 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Awards — Louvre Museum, 1897 • Field — Bronze sculpture • Training — Émile Auguste Marie Guillemin, Jean-Jules Salmson • Movement — Orientalism • Works — Le Guerrier arabe à cheval with Alfred Barye • Died — 1907 • Place of death — Paris, France

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