Georges Bareau
Georges Marie Valentin Bareau (11 April 1866 in Paimbœuf - 4 January 1931 in Nantes) was a French sculptor.
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Georges Bareau
Portrait Georges Bareau (1866-1931) Photo Albert Harlingue · Galerie Roger Viollet · CC BY 4.0
- Born
- 11 April 1866
- Birthplace
- Paimbœuf
- Died
- 4 January 1931
- Place of death
- Nantes
- Occupation
- artist
- Nationality
- France
- Fields
- art of sculpture
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Teachers
- Charles Gauthier · Gabriel Thomas
- Known for
- Monument à Jules Verne · Monument aux morts de la guerre de 1870 · Monument aux morts de la Première Guerre mondiale
- Honours
- Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Bibliothèque nationale de France · Getty Union List of Artist Names
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Biography
Biography
Georges Bareau studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Charles Gauthier and Gabriel Thomas is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Works named in the authority record are Monument à Jules Verne, Monument aux morts de la guerre de 1870 and Monument aux morts de la Première Guerre mondiale. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour.
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For the birthplace of Georges Bareau, Paimboeuf (Loire-Atlantique, France) is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and Paimbœuf by the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
Monument à Jules-Verne jardin des plantes. (Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France)
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Monument à Jules-Verne jardin des plantes. (Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France)
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Key facts
Key facts
• Born — 11 April 1866 • Birthplace — Paimbœuf • Died — 4 January 1931 • Place of death — Nantes • Occupation — artist
Documentary record
Georges Bareau appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names as a sculptor (11 April 1866 – 4 January 1931). Georges Bareau was born on 11 April 1866 and died on 4 January 1931 in Nantes.
Biography
Biography
• Illustration — La Vision du Poète (1902), Paris, jardin du Ranelagh. Georges Bareau's father was a carpenter in Paimbœuf. He entered the École des beaux-arts de Paris where he was a pupil of Charles Gauthier and Gabriel-Jules Thomas. He exhibited at the Salon from 1889. In 1893, he won a third medal at the Salon de la Société des artistes français and then, the following year, a vermeil medal at the Exposition universelle de Lyon. He was awarded the Salon prize in 1895, and at the end of the Brussels International Exhibition of 1897, he was placed out of competition. A gold medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris crowned his career. He was promoted to the rank of officer of the Legion of Honour in December 1906. Georges Bareau died in Nantes on 4 January 1931 bequeathing all his works to the City of Saint-Nazaire. He is buried in Nantes at the Miséricorde Cemetery.
Fonts of edition
Fonts of edition
The majority of these were made by the foundry workshop of Ferdinand Barbedienne. • David in front of Saul, Salon of 1893 • The Conqueror, 1894 • L'Appel des armes • Poetry • Diana Riding an Eagle • "Allegory of History". • Vox Pacis • The Falconer • Fortune • Allegory of Letters * • Figure of a ploughman * • The Blacksmith • Illustration — Pour le drapeau, top group of the Monument to the dead of the 1870 war (1897), Nantes. • Illustration — L'Histoire (circa 1900), Musée des beaux-arts de Besançon. • Illustration — Le Temps créant la Sagesse (1902), marble, musée des beaux-arts de Nantes. • Illustration — Monument to Jacques Cartier (1905), remparts of Saint-Malo. • Illustration — Monument to Jules Verne (1910) jardin des plantes de Nantes. The bust of Jules Verne (1945) is by Jean Mazuet.
Work and production
Work and production
Works recorded as notable number 3: Monument à Jules Verne, Monument aux morts de la guerre de 1870 and Monument aux morts de la Première Guerre mondiale.
Identity
Identity
Georges Bareau is recorded as having received Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1866
Georges Bareau was born in 1866 at Paimbœuf.
1931
Georges Bareau died in 1931 at Nantes.
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Paimbœuf.
Birth place
Nantes.
Death place
Works in public collections
• In Canada • Quebec City, Jacques Cartier Market Square, Monument to Jacques Cartier, 1926. In Denmark • Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: Awakening of Humanity, plaster. In France • Barentin, town hall: Éveil de l'Humanité, 1906, marble, medal of honour at the 1906 Salon des artistes français. • Courbevoie, cemetery: Monument aux Morts. • Luçon: Monument aux morts. • Nantes: • jardin des plantes: Monument to Jules Verne, 1910, bronze, sent to be melted down in 1942 under the Vichy regime, as part of the mobilisation of non-ferrous metals. The bronze bust was replaced in 1945 by a stone bust made by Jean Mazuet. • Monument aux morts de la guerre de 1870, summit group Pour le drapeau, 1897. The model was exhibited at the 1895 Salon. • musée des beaux-arts: • La Mort de Léandre, marble. The plaster model obtained a third class medal at the 1893 Salon; • Time creating Wisdom, marble. • Paris: • Grand Palais, façade: L'Art asiatique, stone statue. • The Ranelagh garden: The Vision of the Poet, 1902, high relief in marble, in homage to Victor Hugo. • Péronne, Musée Alfred-Danicourt: Le Temps créant la Sagesse, 1904, bronze • Ploërmel: Monument to Alphonse Guérin, 1896, bronze, sent for casting under the Vichy regime, as part of the mobilisation of non-ferrous metals. • Saint-Étienne: Monument to José Frappa, 1912. • Saint-Lô, musée des beaux-arts: Madame X, 1904, marble bust. • Saint-Malo, remparts: Monument to Jacques Cartier, 1905. • Saint-Nazaire: Monument to Fernand Gasnier, 1912, bronze, sent to be melted down under the Vichy regime, as part of the mobilisation of non-ferrous metals. • Tours, hôtel de ville: Jean Fouquet and Jean Briçonnet, 1899, statues in stone cement. • Villeneuve-sur-Lot: Monument aux morts de la guerre de 1870, known as Pour le drapeau, 1923, Barbedienne cast iron.
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- 1.Quoted in the Presse-Océan.fr article Miséricorde: illustres oubliés, dated 15 September 2010, reprinted on the site Landru cimetières.
- 2."Éveil de l'humanité" , notice on musee-orsay.fr.
- 3.Nantes. 'Nemo and Jules Verne as a child', a statue on the Butte Sainte-Anne.
- 4.Le blog de Véronique D. Jules Verne in Nantes.
- 5."Monument to Jules Verne - Jardin des Plantes - Nantes (melted down and replaced by stone)", notice on e-monumen.net
- 6."Monument aux morts de 1870, ou Monument aux enfants de Loire-Inférieure, ou Monument aux combattants, dit aussi 'Pour le drapeau' - Nantes", notice on e-monumen.net.
- 7.hervedavid.fr.
- 8."Monument to Alphonse Guérin - Ploërmel", notice on e-monumen.net.
- 9."Monument to José Frappa - Saint-Étienne", notice on e-monumen.net
- 10."Madame X", notice on musee-orsay.fr.
- 11."Monument to Jacques Cartier - Saint-Malo", notice on e-monumen.net
- 12."Monument to Fernand Gasnier - Saint-Nazaire (melted down)", notice on e-monumen.net.
- 13.Jean Briconnet (Tours, c. 1420-Tours, 1493), Receiver General of Finances, first Mayor of Tours in 1462.
- 14."Monument aux morts de 1870, dit Pour le drapeau - Villeneuve-sur-Lot", notice on e-monumen.net.
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Georges Bareau studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. He trained under Charles Gauthier and Gabriel Thomas.
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