Léon-Alexandre Delhomme

Léon-Alexandre Delhomme (20 July 1841, Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche – 1895 or 1893, Paris) was French sculptor. He is immortalised by a statue in the cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.^[1]

Life

He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, in the studio of Augustin Dumont (1801–1884) and of Joseph-Hugues Fabisch.

In 1867, he was elected to the municipal council of Paris.^[2]

Works

Democrites meditating on the seat of the soul, garden of the musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

• Statue of the Republic, in the main amphitheatre of the Sorbonne (1889).^[3] She is shown as a wise woman between an urn and a lion "removing the veil of ignorance from a young Frenchman", in one of the university's least neutral sculptures (commissioned by Soitoux).^[4]
• Statue of Louis Blanc (1811–1882) in bronze, melted down during World War Two, located on Place Monge (Paris, 5th arrondissement)
• Above the entrance to the Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville - Paris (4th arr.)
• Bust of the French doctor Stanislas Laugier (1799–1872)
• Statue Defiance known as The Gaul^[5]
• Démocrite méditant sur le siège de l'âme.
• Standing warrior (Gaul) ^[6]
• Medal of Jean-Charles-Adolphe Alphand^[7]
• Cast iron

• Vercingetorix,
• Wounded Gaul,
• Joan of Arc.

Notes

1. In Le guide des effigies de Paris, by Jean-Pierre Thomas, Éditeur L'Harmattan, 2003, p. 130, ISBN 978-2-7475-2314-1
2. Member of the municipal council of Paris.
3. Republic, 1889.
4. A République.
5. Defiance.
6. Standing warrior.
7. Medal of Jean-Charles Alphand.