Eugène Delaplanche

Eugène Delaplanche studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. Training under Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse is recorded. Charles Vital Cornu is recorded as having studied under Eugène Delaplanche. The recorded working language is French. Work by Eugène Delaplanche is recorded in the collections of Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille, Musée d'Orsay and Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome and Officer of the Legion of Honour.

He was a pupil of Duret, gained the Prix de Rome in 1864 (spending 1864–67 at the Villa Medici in Rome), and the medal of honor in 1878. His "Messenger of Love" (1874), "Aurora" (1878), and the "Virgin of the Lillies" (1884), are in the Luxembourg. Other works by him are "Music" (1878, Paris Opera House), called his masterpiece; "Eve After the Fall" (1869); "Maternal Instruction" (1875, Square of Sainte-Clothilde, Paris); and the statues of "Security" and "Commerce" (1884) in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris (replicas in the Chicago Art Institute). He is also noted for his decorations in relief on vases of Haviland faience. His best work is naturalistic, but at the same time dignified and simple in line, and shows sound mastery of technique. He is represented by 15 works in the Glyptothek, Copenhagen, and in many other French museums and in churches.

• Musée d'Orsay, Paris • Virgin with a Lily, 1878, marble • Africa, 1878, bronze, on the parvis of the museum • Eve before the Fall, 1891, marble • Eve after the Fall, c. 1869, marble • Child riding a tortoise, 1866, bronze, Marseille, Musée des Beaux-Arts • Allegory of Air, bronze, Compiègne, Musée Antoine Vivenel • Allegory of Water, bronze, Compiègne, Musée Antoine Vivenel • Study of a monk's head, c. 1870, marble, Le Puy-en-Velay, Musée Crozatier • Saint Agnes, 1873, Église Sainte-Croix, Paulhan in Hérault • Maternal education, 1875, square Samuel-Rousseau, 7th arrondissement, Paris.

• Illustration — Music 1870. For the Opéra Garnier, 1870. • Illustration — Africa 1878. Parvis of the musée d'Orsay. • Illustration — Virgin with a lily Musée d'Orsay.

Eugène Delaplanche is recorded with the occupation sculptor. Recorded as sculptor and painter.