Eugène-Louis Lequesne

La Renommée retenant Pégase, Palais Garnier, Paris

La bonne mère, Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille

Eugène-Louis Lequesne (or Le Quesne) (15 February 1815 – 3 June 1887) was a French sculptor.^[1]

Lequesne was born and died in Paris. In 1841, he entered the École nationale des beaux-arts, in James Pradier's workshop. In 1843, he won the second Prix de Rome, and in 1844 the first prize, with a plaster bas-relief entitled Pyrrhus tuant Priam. He lived at the Académie de France à Rome from 1844 to 1849, alongside Jean-Louis Charles Garnier. In 1855, he was awarded the Great Prize for sculpture at the Exposition Universelle, and received the Légion d'honneur.

Main works

• figures representing Rouen and Amiens, on the facade of the Gare du Nord, Paris, circa 1862
• colossal finial figure of La Bonne Mère, Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille, 1867
• plaster figure of Camulogene, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 1872
• two Pégase, Palais Garnier, Paris
• Faune dansant, jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
• La Foi, La Charité et L'Espérance, Église de la Ste.-Trinité, Paris
• Thuillier Constant, du Cange, L'Industrie, La Sculpture, museum of Amiens
• Masque d’Homère, museum of Beaufort
• Faune dansant, museum of Bordeaux
• Prêtresse de Bacchus, museum de Cambrai
• À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles and Vercingétorix vaincu défiant les soldats romains, museum of Chartres
• Le buste de Laënnec, Faculté de médecine de Paris
• Thuillier, museum of Roanne
• Le maréchal de Saint Amand, museum of Versailles
• Renommée retenant Pégase, Musée d'Orsay, Paris^[2]

References

1. "LEQUESNE (ou LE QUESNE) Eugène Louis" (in French). Héritage des Échecs Français. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
2. "Eugène Louis Lequesne, Renommée retenant Pégase, en 1865" (in French). Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 2009-06-30.

External links

• (French) Works by Lequesne, on Paris Sculptures (photos)
• Eugène-Louis Lequesne in American public collections on the French Sculpture Census website