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Emmanuel Fremiet

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FREMIET, EMMANUEL (1824-1910), French sculptor, born in Paris, was a nephew and pupil of Rude ; he chiefly devoted himself to animal sculpture and to equestrian statues in armour. His earliest wdrk was in scientific lithography (osteology), and for a while he served in the gruesome office of "painter to the Morgue." In 1843 he sent to the Salon a study of a "Gazelle." His "Wounded Bear" and "Wounded Dog" were produced in 185o (Luxembourg Museum). He produced the following equestrian statues: "Chef Gaulois" in 1864 (Museum at St. Germain) ; "Louis d'Orleans" in 1869 (at the Château de Pierrefonds) ; "Joan of Arc," in 1874 (Place de Rivoli, Paris) ; this he afterwards (1889) replaced with another version; "Velasquez" in 1891 (Gardens of the Louvre) ; "Duguesclin" in 1902 (Dinan) ; "Colonel Howard" in 1903 (Baltimore). His masterly "Gorilla and Woman" won him a medal of honour at the Salon of 1887. Of the same character is his "Ourang-Outangs and Borneo Savage" of 1895, at the Paris Museum of Natural History. He became a member of the Academie des Beaux Arts in 1892, and of the Royal Academy in London in 1904, and succeeded Barye as pro fessor of animal drawing at the Natural History Museum of Paris. He died in Paris on Sept. 1o, 191O.

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