Eugène André Oudiné

Eugène André Oudiné studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under André Galle, Louis Petitot and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres is recorded. Hubert Ponscarme and Johan Edvard Ericsson are recorded as having studied under Eugène André Oudiné. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with Beaux-Arts de Paris. Works named in the authority record are Bertrada and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon. Work by Eugène André Oudiné is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina, Musée d'Orsay, Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer and STAM Ghent City Museum. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour and Prix de Rome.

• Illustration — Coin with Ceres Having taken the Prix de Rome for engraving in 1831, he had a sensational success with his Wounded Gladiator, which he exhibited in the same year. He subsequently occupied official posts as designer, first to the Inland Revenue Office, and then to the Mint. Among his most famous medals are that struck in commemoration of the annexation of Savoy by France, and that on the occasion of the peace of Villafranca. • Illustration — Bathsheba (1859), North Façade of the Cour Carree of the Louvre Palace, Paris Other remarkable pieces are The Apotheosis of Napoleon I, The Amnesty, Le Duc d'Orleans, Bertholet, The Universal Exposition, The Second of December, 1851, The Establishment of the Republic, The Battle of Inkermann, and Napoleon's Tomb at the Invalides. For the Hôtel de Ville, Paris he executed fourteen bas-reliefs, which were destroyed in 1871. Of his monumental works, many are to be seen in public places in and near Paris. In the Tuileries gardens is his group of Daphnis and Hebe; in the Jardin du Luxembourg the Queen Bertha; at the Louvre the Buffon; and in the courtyard of the same palace the Bathsheba. A monument to General Espagne is at the Invalides, and a King Louis VIII at Versailles. Oudine, who may be considered the father of the modern medal, died in Paris on 12 April 1887.

Eugène André Oudiné is recorded as having received Knight of the Legion of Honour and Prix de Rome.