Charles Degeorge
Charles Jean Marie Degeorge (1837 Lyon – 1888 Paris)[1] was a French sculptor, and medallist, whose best-known work, La jeunesse d'Aristote (The Youth of Aristotle) (1875) depicts the philosopher as a semi-nude teenage boy sitting in a large chair, looking bored as he studies a scroll. The statue is currently in the Musée d'Orsay.
Degeorge also sculpted a bust of Henri Regnault which was incorporated into Regnault's monument at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris.
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- Courtauld Institute: Monument to Henri Regnault
- Three views of La jeunesse d'Aristote from :
- Charles Degeorge in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
References[]
- ^ "Charles Degeorge" (in French). Musée d' Orsay. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
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- 1837 births
- 1888 deaths
- Prix de Rome for engraving
- People from Lyon
- Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- 19th-century French sculptors
- French male sculptors
- 19th-century male artists
- French sculptor stubs