Louis Auvray
Illustration — Louis Auvray (c.1860) Louis Auvray (lang; 7 April 1810 in Valenciennes – 27 April 1890 in Paris) was a French sculptor and art critic. He was the pupil of David d'Angers and was the brother of Félix Auvray, a painter. He continued the Dictionnaire Général des Artistes de l'école française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours, started by Émile Bellier de La Chavignerie.
Louis Auvray
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- Born
- 1810 · Valenciennes.
- Died
- 1890 · Neuilly-sur-Seine.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- sculptor · literary scholar · art critic · writer
- Teachers
- David d'Angers
- Languages
- French
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Louis Auvray (7 April 1810 – 1890) is described as a sculptor, writer and art critic in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
Life
The birth of Louis Auvray is recorded on 7 April 1810, and the death in 1890 in Paris. Louis Auvray was born in Valenciennes, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the fuller form Valenciennes (Nord).
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Bibliothèque nationale de France · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek · Getty Union List of Artist Names
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• Portrait d'Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, 1863, bust, marble, Paris, Louvre • Portrait du peintre Gentile Bellini, 1871, bust, marble, Paris, Louvre • Portrait du chroniqueur Jean Froissart, 1843, bust, marble, Versailles • Portrait du musicien Jean-François Lesueur, bust, marble, Versailles • Portrait du sculpteur Jacques François Joseph Saly, bust, marble, Versailles • Portrait du sculpteur Jacques François Joseph Saly, 1838, bust, marble, Valenciennes
Life and career
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Life and career
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1810
Louis Auvray born at Valenciennes.
1890
Louis Auvray died at Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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Valenciennes.
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Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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- 1.« Inauguration du monument de Henri Brévière », Journal de Rouen, 6 octobre 1873,
- 2.chapitre titre Catalogue illustré et annoté des œuvres exposées au Palais des beaux-arts de la ville de Valenciennes titre Auvray (Louis) 1931 1 193 lire en https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6524660j.image.r=Auvray.f213.hl .
- 3.Journal des débats politiques et littéraires du 01/05/1890.
- 4.Bénézit B00008937 .
- 5.Buste à la française de Watteau. Base Mémoire - site du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Simone Hoog (préface de Jean-Pierre Babelon, avec la collaboration de Roland Brossard), Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures, Vol. I, « Le musée », Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993.
- Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre (sous la direction de Jean-René Gaborit, avec la collaboration de Jean-Charles Agboton, Hélène Grollemund, Michèle Lafabrie, Béatrice Tupinier-Barillon), Musée du Louvre. département des sculptures du Moyen Âge, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes. Sculpture française II. Renaissance et temps modernes, vol. 1, « Adam-Gois », Paris, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1998.
- Bénézit. Emmanuel. Emmanuel Bénézit. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs & graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Auvray (Louis). Paris. Gründ. 1924. 1056. 280.
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