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Antonin Mercié sketched by Ramon Casas ( MNAC ) Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (October 30, 1845 in Toulouse – December 12, 1916 in Paris ), was a French sculptor , medallist [ 1 ] and painter .
Marius Jean Antonin Mercié was born in Toulouse and attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied under François Jouffroy and Alexandre Falguière. In 1868, he won the Prix de Rome with the composition Thésée vainqueur du Minotaure.
Gloria Victis ("glory to the vanquished") is a sculpture by Antonin Mercié. Many casts, with different finishes, exist of the group. That pictured here is seen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Another example of the statue can be found in Bordeaux, France, where it faces Saint André's Cathedral.
Marius Jean Antonin Mercié [2] Demolished: September 8, 2021 (removal of statue), February 2022 (dismantling of pedestal) Part of: Monument Avenue Historic District : NRHP reference No. 06001213 [1] VLR No. 127-0181: Significant dates; Added to NRHP: January 5, 2007: Designated NHLDCP: December 9, 1997: Designated VLR: September 6, 2006 [3]
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The French sculptor Antonin Mercié was selected. Mercié had previously created a bronze equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee in 1890 in Richmond, Virginia. [2] The Francis Scott Key Monument was dedicated on Eutaw Place in 1911. [3] It was restored and rededicated on September 11, 1999. [2]
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Genius of Arts on the Louvre Palace façade facing the Seine, by Antonin Mercié (1877) replacing a bas-relief of Napoleon III by Antoine-Louis Barye (1869) deposed on 6 September 1870 and now at the Château de Compiègne [1] [2] Charlemagne et ses Leudes in front of Notre-Dame de Paris, by the brothers Louis and Charles Rochet (1878), erected ...