Gustave Deloye

Gustave Deloye,
by Ignaz Eigner (1875)

 [fr] in Nice

Jean-Baptiste Gustave Deloye (30 April 1838, Sedan - 17 February 1899, Paris) was a French sculptor and medallist in the Neo-Baroque style.

Biography[]

He was a student of François Jouffroy and Jean-Pierre Dantan at the École des beaux-arts de Paris. In 1862, he was awarded second place for sculpture in the Prix de Rome. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Salon and received several commissions for monuments from the French government.

Among his most outstanding works are the caryatids at the Château de Chenonceaux, the  [fr]^[1] and the  [fr].^[2] His best known work is a monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi (1891), commissioned by the city of Nice, done from an original design by Antoine Étex.That same year, he contributed two bas-reliefs for a monument to Juan Santamaría, a national hero of Costa Rica, in Alajuela, created by his friend Aristide Croisy.^[3]

In 1892, he was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor.^[4] He also created numerous decorative works at public buildings in Vienna, Rome and St. Petersburg and smaller figures for the Meissen Porcelain factory. His statue of Mark the Evangelist on a winged lion is on display at the Musée d'Orsay.^[5]

He is buried at L'Étang-la-Ville.

References[]

Further reading[]

• Guillaume Peigné, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs néo-baroques français (1870-1914), CTHS (2012) ISBN 978-2-7355-0780-1

External links[]

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