Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume
Illustration — Eugène Guillaume Photograph by Eugène Pirou • Illustration — The Gracchi, Musée d'Orsay Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume (4 July 1822, Montbard – 1 March 1905, Rome) was a French sculptor.
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Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume

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- 1822
- Died
- 1905
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- sculptor · professor · art critic
- Known for
- Michel de L'Hospital
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Illustration — Eugène Guillaume Photograph by Eugène Pirou • Illustration — The Gracchi, Musée d'Orsay Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume (4 July 1822, Montbard – 1 March 1905, Rome) was a French sculptor.
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Biography
He was born at Montbard on the Côte-d'Or. He studied under Cavelier, Millet, and Barrias, at the École des Beaux-Arts, which he entered in 1841, and where he gained the prix de Rome in 1845 with Theseus finding on a rock his father's sword. He became director of the École des Beaux-Arts in 1864, and director-general of Fine Arts from 1878 to 1879, when the office was suppressed. Guillaume was a prolific writer, principally on sculpture and architecture of the Classic period and of the Italian Renaissance. He was elected member of the Académie française in 1898, and in 1891 was sent to Rome as director of the Académie de France in that city. He held this position until 1904. He was also elected an honorary member of the Royal Academy, London, 1869, on the institution of that class.
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Many of his works have been bought for public galleries, and his monuments are to be found in the public squares of the chief cities of France. At Reims there is his bronze statue of Colbert, at Dijon his Rameau monument. The Musée du Luxembourg has his Anacreon (1852), Faucheur (1855), and the marble bust of Mgr Darboy; the Versailles Museum the portrait of Thiers; the Sorbonne Library the marble bust of Victor le Clerc, doyen de la faculté des lettres. Other works of his are at Trinity Church, Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, and the church of St Clotilde, Paris. The Musée d'Orsay in Paris hosts Les Gracques (1853).
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Identity and origins
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume was recorded at birth as Jean Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume. The authorities additionally record the headings Eugène Guillaume, Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Eugène Guillaume, Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugene Guillaume, Eugene Guillaume and Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Eugene Guillaume. His recorded language was French.
Career and activity
Career and activity
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume worked in art of sculpture. He was employed by École des Beaux-Arts and Collège de France. Recorded positions include director of the French Academy in Rome and seat 21 of the Académie française. He belonged to Académie Française, Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople, Royal Academy of Arts, Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Île-de-France and Académie des beaux-arts.
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1822
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume born at Montbard.
1857
Vierge dorée (Marseille) is dated 1857.
1905
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume died at Rome.
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Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume received Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Prix de Rome for sculpture, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.
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Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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