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Jean Baptiste Clesinger

Jean Baptiste Clesinger (1814 - 1883) was active/lived in France.  Jean Clesinger is known for Sculpture, painting.

Jean Baptiste Clesinger, known as Auguste, was born in Besancon in 1814, son of George Philippe, sculptor and stone mason.  A pupil of his father's, he showed for the first time at the Paris Salon in 1843 (bust of Viscount Jules de Valdahon).  His father had taken him to Rome in 1832 and he worked in Bertel Thorvaldsen's studio for a while.  Upon his return to Paris he worked with David d'Angers maintaining a studio in Rome at the same time.

He caused a scandal at the Salon of 1847 with his work entitled Woman with a Serpent.  Model for this life size marble study of a nude was a well known courtesan Apollonie Sabatier, Baudelaire's mistress at the time.  It is said that the scandal was orchestrated by Theophile Gautier, who spread the rumor that the cast of the statue was taken from life. (www.appl-lachaise.net).  Not only was Clesinger's fame ensured from then on, but other sculptors began to show the female body in a more realistic   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1724 characters.]  Artist bio

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