Victor Ségoffin

bust of the Cuban-French poet José-Maria de Heredia, bronze, Luxembourg Garden

Victor Joseph Jean Ambroise Segoffin (1867–1925) was a French sculptor.

Born in Toulouse, educated at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Louis-Ernest Barrias and Pierre-Jules Cavelier, Segoffin won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1897. He became an instructor at the Ecole, became an officier of the Légion d'honneur in 1922, and a street in Toulouse is named for him.

His works include:

• The war dance, marble, Musée d'Orsay, 1903–1905
• Sacred Mask Dance, bronze, Musée d'Orsay, 1905
• marble monument of Voltaire, meant for the Pantheon, now in the courtyard of the Lycee de Voltaire, 1907–1921
• bronze Genius Vanquishing Time at the Cour Napoleon at the Louvre Palace, 1908, melted down during the German occupation
• bust of the Cuban-French poet José-Maria de Heredia, bronze, Jardin du Luxembourg
• Therese Combarieu, marble, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
• Denise Combarieu, bronze, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
• Emile Cartailhac, bronze, Muséum of Toulouse 1914

Sources

• online biography (in French)