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List of works by Charles-Auguste Lebourg


Charles-Auguste Lebourg was a French sculptor born in Nantes in 1829. He died in Paris in 1906. This is a listing of his main works.

These are listed below.

In 1881, Lebourg executed an allegory of Nantes as part of the town hall's decoration.

Lebourg executed the bronze statue "Travail" for the École Diderot. It was shown at the 1885 Paris Salon and the Paris Exposition Universelle (1889).

In 1872 Lebourg completed a posthumous bust in white marble based on a photograph of the Wallaces by Étienne Corjat of 1855. His white marble bust of Lady Wallace shown here was exhibited at the Paris salon in May 1872.

This Lebourg sculpture depicting a shepherd reading stands in the grounds of the Château de Fontainebleau.

Lebourg has three of his sculptures decorating parts of the outside of the Louvre. The Mollien Pavilion and the Ailes Mollien (an "aile" is a wing) is part of the cour Napoléon and is named after a Treasury minister at the time of the French Empire (Nicolas François, Count Mollien) and Lebourg's "La Chasse" is one of the group of children decorating what is known as the "aile en retour Mollien". The second of Lebourg's sculptures can be seen in the Richelieu pavilion where the tympanum of the arcade of the passage leading to the rue de Rivoli is decorated with Lebourg's bas relief "Vérite et Histoire". The third sculpture, again part of the cour Napoléon, decorates the Apollon rotunda and is entitled "La Force". The Musée d'Orsay hold the plaster model of "La Chasse".

Lebourg is arguably best known for his caryatids for the famous cast-iron Wallace fountain, a public drinking fountain seen all over France and in many parts of the world. They are named after the Englishman Richard Wallace, who financed their construction. A great aesthetic success, they are recognized worldwide as one of the symbols of Paris. A Wallace Fountain can be seen outside the Wallace Collection in London, the gallery that houses the works of art collected by Sir Richard Wallace and the first four Marquesses of Hertford. The caryatids depict "La Simplicité", "La Bonté", "La Sobriété" and "La Charite" as shown below.


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