Jean-Jules Salmson

JEAN-JULES SALMSON (Paris, 1823- Coupvray,1902).
"Native American couple".
Signed "Salmson".
Measurements: 64 cm (total height).

Jean-Jules Salmson was trained at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, where he studied with Jules Ramey, Armand Toussaint and Auguste Dumont. In 1845, he won the sculpture essay competition on the theme of L'Effroi. In 1846, he competed for the second Grand Prix de Rome, but destroyed the work he was not satisfied with. One of his first public works was a medallion that adorned the tomb of his brother Jean Eugène (1832-1848) in the Montmartre cemetery in Paris.
Jules Salmson was living on the Boulevard du Temple in 1859 and began exhibiting at the 1859 Salon, sending medallions and then busts. In 1859, he made the medal of the regional exhibition of trade and industry of Rouen. In 1867, he lived at 26 rue Condorcet in Paris, when he was appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. In 1876, he made the plaster cast of the statue of Henri IV for the town hall of La Rochelle, the model for the ceramic statue of Théodore Deck, La Prudence for the court of commerce of the Seine, the caryatids for the Vaudeville theater (now Gaumont-Opéra) in Paris, La Gloire for the new palace of the Louvre and the statue of Haendel for the Opera Garnier.

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