Louis-Ernest Barrias

Louis-Ernest Barrias (April 13, 1841, Paris-February 4, 1905, Paris) was a French sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school. He came from a family of artists; his father was a porcelaine-painter, and his older brother Félix-Joseph Barrias a well-known painter. Louis-Ernest started out as a painter, studying under Léon Cogniet, but later took up sculpture with P. T. Cavelier as teacher. In 1858 he was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where his teacher was François Jouffroy. In 1864 Barrias won the Prix de Rome. Barrias was involved in the decoration of the Paris Opéra and the Hôtel de la Païva in the Champs-Élysées. His work was mostly in marble, in an academic, neo-classic style. In 1878 he was made a knight of the Legion of Honour, an officer in 1881, and a commander in 1900. Barrias replaced Dumont at the Institut de France in 1884 then succceded Cavelier as professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. Among his students were Josep Clarà, Charles Despiau, and Victor Segoffin.

Works

At the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise:

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• Tomb of Thomas Couture (c. 1879)
• Tomb of Anatole de la Forge (1893)

At the Jardin des Tuileries:

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• The Oath of Spartacus (1869)

At La Défense:

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• Monument to the defenders of Paris(1880 - 1883)

At the Musée d'Orsay:

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• Nature Unveiling Herself before Science. (1899)
• Bust of Henri Regnault (1871)
• Nubian Alligator Hunters (1893 - 1894)

In private collections:

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• First Mourning, Adam and Eve carrying Abel (1878)
• Fame (c. 1893)