Eugène Marioton

EUGENE MARIOTON (France, 1854–1933).
“Hunter.”
Bronze sculpture.
Measurements: 81 cm (height).

A French sculptor and medalist born in Paris, Eugène Marioton was a student of Auguste Dumont, Gabriel-Jules Thomas, and Jean-Marie Bonnassieux. He was also the brother of fellow sculptor Claudius Marioton and painter Jean-Alfred Marioton. He worked in both sculpture and medal making, and regularly participated in the Salon of the Society of French Artists in Paris, where he also served on the jury in 1905. In the last two decades of the 19th century, Marioton was awarded a bronze medal at this exhibition in 1882, a third-class medal in 1883, and a second-class medal in 1884 (that same year, he won a second-class medal in Mr. Willemsens’s first competition). He was also a laureate in Dumont’s class, winning first prize in the competition of the Free Society of Fine Arts for his marble bas-relief “Hero and Leander,” and that same year he received a scholarship from the General Council of the Seine. He participated in the 1889 Paris World’s Fair with the bronze group “Les frères d’armes,” one year after winning a travel grant in the Prix de Rome competition. Furthermore, in 1890 he was awarded the Prix Desprez, and at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair, he was one of the artists representing the thirty-six participating nations through 2.5-meter-tall figures, with his work “Mineur belge.” Works by Eugène Marioton are currently held in the Louvre Museum, the Rouen Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Romania, and other public and private collections.