Emmanuel Fontaine

EMMANUEL FONTAINE (Commercy, France, 1856-1935)
"A la rivière".
Sculpture in patinated bronze.
Signed and titled.
It presents plate of the Salon des Beaux-Arts of Paris of 1894 ("acquired by the State").
Measurements: 77,5 x 43 x 35 cm.

Active in the district of Montparnasse, Emmanuel Fontaine was a student of François Jouffroy, Alexandre Falguière, Antonin Mercié and Louis Noël at the École des beaux-arts of Paris. He exhibited medallions and busts at the Paris Salon from 1877 to 1882. His sculptures obtained different mentions over the years, the most relevant being: an honorable mention in 1887, a third class medal in 1893, a second class medal in 1896, a silver medal in 1900, and a first class medal in 1904. He was named Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1910 and was classified out of competition in 1922. The bronze statue of his Monument to Jacques Boucher de Perthes, erected in the Place du Pilori in Abbeville in 1907 and inaugurated in June 1908, was demolished by the German occupiers during World War II.