ETEX, ANTOINE (1808-1888), French sculptor, painter and architect, was born in Paris on March 20, 18o8. He first exhibited in the Salon of 1833, his work including a reproduction in marble of his "Death of Hyacinthus," and the plaster cast of his "Cain and his race cursed by God." Thiers, at that time min ister of public works, now commissioned him to execute the two groups of "Peace" and "War," placed at each side of the Arc de Triomphe. Among the best known of his architectural productions are the tomb of Napoleon I. in the Invalides and a monument of the revolution of 1848. He died at Chaville (Seine-et-Oise) on June 14, 1888.
See P. E. Mangeant, Antoine Etex, peintre, sculpteur et architecte, 1808-1888 (1894).