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Aime-Jules Dalou

Aime-Jules Dalou (1838 - 1902) was active/lived in France, England.  Aime Jules Dalou is known for Allegory figure and commemorative sculpture.

Aime-Jules Dalou was a French sculptor, recognized as one of the most brilliant virtuosos of nineteenth-century France, admired for his perceptiveness, execution, and unpretentious realism.

Dalou was born in Paris, into from a working-class family of Huguenot background, who raised him in an atmosphere of secularity and Republican socialism. He was the pupil of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, who sponsored him for the Petite École (future École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs), where he sympathysed with Alphonse Legros and Fantin-Latour.  In 1854 he attended the École des Beaux-Arts* de Paris in the François-Joseph Duret classroom. He combined the vivacity and richness of Carpeaux, for "he was, technically, one of the most distinguished modellers of his time", with the academic insistence on harmonious outlines and scholarly familiarity with the work of Giambologna and others of Duret.

Dalou first exhibited at the Paris Salon* in 1861, but he made no secret of his w   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5705 characters.]  Artist bio

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