Louis-Ernest Barrias
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Art Work
| Name: |
Louis-Ernest Barrias |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
paris, France |
| Nationality: |
French |
| Birth: |
1841 |
| Death: |
1905 |
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| Medium: |
bronze |
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| Style: |
Realism, Romanticism |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Sculpture
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Biography
| Barria was a French sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school. He was born in Paris into a family of artists. His father was a porcelain-painter, and his older brother Felix-Joseph Barrias a well-known painter. Louis-Ernest also started out as a painter, studying under Leon Cogniet, but later took up sculpture with Pierre-Jules Cavelier as teacher. In 1858 he was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where his teacher was Francois Jouffroy. In 1865 Barrias won the Prix de Rome for study at the French Academy in Rome. Barrias was involved in the decoration of the Paris Opera and the Hotel de la Paiva in the Champs-Elysees. His work was mostly in marble, in a Romantic realist style indebted to Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. He taught at the Institut de France in 1884. |
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