Victor Segoffin

Victor Segoffin studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris, Institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse and École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. Training under Aimé Millet, Pierre-Jules Cavelier and Louis-Ernest Barrias is recorded. Anne-Marie Roux-Colas, Johannes Kragh and Clarisse Lévy-Kinsbourg are recorded as having studied under Victor Segoffin. The recorded working language is French. Employment is recorded with Beaux-Arts de Paris. Works named in the authority record are José-Maria de Heredia. Work by Victor Segoffin is recorded in the collections of Musée des Augustins, National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Musée Carnavalet and Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome, resident at the Villa Medici, Officer of the Legion of Honour and officier d'académie.

Born in Toulouse, Ségoffin's early education was at the Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat. After school he was admitted to the Toulouse School of Fine Arts in the studio of Charles Ponsin-Andarahy. In 1887, having become an orphan, he joined the army. He took further education at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Louis-Ernest Barrias and Pierre-Jules Cavelier. Ségoffin won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1897. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he was appointed head of the women's studio at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, and an officier in 1911. A street in Toulouse is named after him.

His most notable works include: • The war dance, marble, Musée d'Orsay, 1903–1905 • Sacred Mask Dance, bronze, Musée d'Orsay, 1905 • marble monument of Voltaire, meant for the Pantheon, now in the courtyard of the Lycée Voltaire, 1907–1921 • bronze Le Génie et le Temps, in the Cour Napoleon at the Louvre Palace, 1908, melted down during the German occupation • bust of the Cuban-French poet José-Maria de Heredia, bronze, Jardin du Luxembourg • Therese Combarieu, marble, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins • Denise Combarieu, bronze, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins • Emile Cartailhac, bronze, Museum of Toulouse, 1914

• Illustration — David victorious over Goliath (1895), Toulouse, Musée des Augustins • Illustration — Judith with the head of Holofernes, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins • Illustration — Danse Sacrée (1905), Paris, Musée d'Orsay. • Illustration — Monument à Voltaire (1907), Paris, Lycée Voltaire. • Illustration — Bust of Emile Cartailhac (1914), Musée de Toulouse. • Illustration — Bust of the Cuban-French poet José-Maria de Heredia, bronze, Jardin du Luxembourg

Victor Segoffin is recorded with the occupation sculptor. Recorded as having studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris, Institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse and École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the headings Victor Joseph Ségoffin, Victor Joseph Segoffin and Victor Joseph Jean Ambroise Segoffin. His recorded language was French.