Paul Gasq

Paul Gasq studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. Training under Alexandre Falguière, Antonin Mercié and François Jouffroy is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are France. Employment is recorded with Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. Positions recorded include curator. Works named in the authority record are Medea and La Révélation artistique by Paul Gasq. Work by Paul Gasq is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay and Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome, Officer of the Legion of Honour and officier d'académie.

His father was a railway employee who was often absent. He began his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Dijon then, in 1879, enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he took the Prix de Rome in 1890 and studied there until 1894. He also won a Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle (1900). From 1932, he was the curator of the Dijon Museum. In 1935, he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. He died in Paris

• marble group symbolizing National Education, at the tomb of Eugène Spuller, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, circa 1896 • Medea, Jardin des Tuileries, 1896 • marble and bronze statue of President Marie François Sadi Carnot, Dijon, Place de la Republique, 1899, in collaboration with Mathurin Moreau • marble group, The Glory of the Generals of the Revolution, at the Pantheon, Paris • facade allegorical group La Révélation artistique (or Sculpture) at the Grand Palais, Paris, 1900 • Fountaine Subé, (with fellow sculptors Paul Auban and Louis Baralis), Reims, 1906 • architectural bronze Summer and Winter for the Whiteleys department store, Bayswater, London, 1911 • the relief La mobilisation 1914, war memorial in Dijon, 1923 • monumental marine fountain, Square Louise-Michel, Montmartre, Paris, 1932 • L'Electricité on the facade of the Gare de Lyon