Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk
Illustration — L'Europe, by Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk (18 February 1820 – 23 July 1885), or Alexandre Schoenewerk, was a French sculptor. He was a student of David d'Angers, and was named a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1873.
Also recorded as Pierre-Alexandre Schoenewerk · Alexandre Schoenewerk
Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk
Wikimedia Commons / Mu · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Full name
- Pierre-Alexandre Schoenewerk.
- Born
- 1820. · Paris.
- Died
- sources differ (1885 and 1885). · 15th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- sculptor.
- Fields
- art of sculpture.
- Movements
- Romanticism.
- Teachers
- David d'Angers, Pierre-Jules Jollivet and Henry de Triqueti.
- Known for
- Young Tarantine.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — L'Europe, by Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk (18 February 1820 – 23 July 1885), or Alexandre Schoenewerk, was a French sculptor. He was a student of David d'Angers, and was named a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1873.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q2834020 · wikipedia · Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk
In this article
Selected works
Selected works
Training under David d'Angers, Pierre-Jules Jollivet and Henry de Triqueti is recorded. Camille François Chardin is recorded as having studied under Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Works named in the authority record are Young Tarantine. Work by Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Orsay, Musée Carnavalet, Maison de Victor Hugo, Musée de Picardie and Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
• La jeune Tarantine (Young Tarantine), marble, 1871 (Musée d'Orsay) • L'Europe (Musée d'Orsay square) • Jeune fille à la Fontaine, marble, 1873 • The bather, marble • Andromeda, bronze
(Plâtre original réalisée en 1874 suite à une commande de Garnier pour le décor de l'Opéra de Paris / Dépôt du Fonds national d'art contemporain en 1903 à La Piscine, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie (Roubaix)
Alexandre Schoenewerk (1820-1885) · Photograph by Lamiot taken 2008-08-08
"Bacchante", by Alexandre Schoenewerk, 1859, Cour Carrée, Louvre palace, Paris, France.
Jebulon
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Paris.
Birth place
15th arrondissement of Paris.
Death place
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2834020: Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk
General reference · Wikidata
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.The Iconographic Encyclopaedia of the Arts and Scien: Sculpture and painting, 1887, page 138
- 2.The Iconographic Encyclopaedia of the Arts and Scien: Sculpture and painting, 1887, page 138
- 3.http://parissculptures.centerblog.net/rub-schoenewerk-alexandre-.html
- 4.Pierre Grouix, « Je voudrais que les toiles de tous les peintres du monde - Remarques sur Zola critique d'art » dans Pascale Auraix-Jonchière (dir) : Écrire la peinture entre le 18e et 19e siècles: Colloque tenu à Clermont-Ferrand, 24-26 oct. 2001, Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2003, p.286.
- 5.pariscemeteries.blogspot.com. Tumba de Henri Allouard.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
People, houses and institutions
Knowledge graph
People, houses and institutions
Teachers, collaborators, publishers and institutions recorded against this person, each on a stated basis.
Born at
1- ParisPlace
Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Sculpture
6,174 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Pierino da VinciArtist
- Piero ManzoniArtist
- Pierpaolo dalle MasegneArtist
- Pierre Albert-BirotArtist
- Pierre BergouniouxArtist
- Pierre BontempsArtist
- Pierre CuypersArtist
- Pierre FakhouryArtist
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.