Gustave Michel
{{Short description|French artist}}
Gustave Frédéric Michel ({{IPA|fr|ɡystav fʁedeʁik miʃɛl}}; 1851–1924) was a French sculptor, and medallist,{{cite book |title=Biographical Dictionary of Medallists|first1=Michel, Gustave|publisher=Spink & Son Ltd|location=London|author=L. Forrer|volume=4|year=1909|pages=66}}{{cite book |title=Biographical Dictionary of Medallists|first1=Michel, Gustave|publisher=Spink & Son Ltd|location=London|author=L. Forrer|volume=8|year=1930|pages=58}} according to Marina Warner "one of the most famous sculptors of the first decades of this (twentieth) century in France," although virtually unknown today. He also taught sculpture; among his pupils was the American Edith Howland.{{cite book|author1=Jules Heller|author2=Nancy G. Heller|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=19 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5}}
Works
- Monument commemorating the French Revolution, Châtellerault (Vienna), 1890
- two figural groups on the supports of Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, circa 1900
- Monument to Jules Ferry and Autumn, the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, 1910
- 1924 Medal Occupation of the Ruhr.
Gallery
File:Lille PdBA michel la pensee.JPG|La Pensée (1896), Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille.
File:EB1911 Plate IX. v24, pg.510, Fig 1.jpg|Dreaming (1897), Luxembourg Museum in Paris.Encyclopædia Britannica, ed. 1911, vol. 24, pg. 510, Plate IX.
File:Pont bir hakeim paris nautes.jpg|Sculpture group (c. 1900), Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Paris.
File:Ruhr Occupation, French Art Medal 1924 by Michel. Obverse.jpg|Ruhr Occupation, French Art Medal 1924 by Michel. Obverse: Female r. playing a natural trumpet.
File:Ruhr Occupation, French Art Medal 1924 by Michel. Reverse.jpg|Ruhr Occupation, French Art Medal 1924 by Michel. Reverse: The devil riding on a unicycle l., and playing a French horn.
References
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- Monuments and Maidens: the Allegory of the Female Form, Marina Warner, Vintage, 1996
External links
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