Works by this Artist
Triumph of the RepublicJules Dalou, 1879-89
Background
son of a glove-maker
Studies
Petit Ecole (1852-54, Paris); with Francisque Duret at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1854-57)
Career
1870 – exhibits Embroider (bronze, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe) at Paris Salon; it is purchased by French government
1871 – joins Gustave Courbet’s left-wing/republican Federation of Artists; curator of Louvre collections under the Paris Commune; exiled to London by Third Republic; professor of sculpture at South Kensington School of Art
1879 – returns to Paris (amnesty for Commune activists); commissioned by city of Paris to produce Triumph of the Republic for Place de la Nation
1883 – exhibits bronze reliefs Mirabeau Responding to Dreux-Brézé (Palais Bourbon, Paris) and Fraternity (Mairie, 10th arrondissement, Paris); wins gold medal at Salon; awarded Légion d’honneur; refuses professorship at Ecole des Beaux-Arts
1885 – exhibits Tomb of Auguste Blanqui at Salon
1890 – exhibits Tomb of Victor Noir at Salon; Delacroix Monument unveiled in Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
Travels
London exile (1871-79)
Commissions from
Victoria (Queen of England); City of Paris
Important Artworks
Woman Reading, 1877 (Manchester Art Gallery)
Fraternity, 1883 (terra cotta, Dahesh Museum, New York)
Louis Auguste Blanqui Tomb, 1885 (Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris)
Victor Noir Tomb, 1890 (Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris)
See also
Auguste Rodin, Jules Dalou, c. 1883 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Readings:
Hunisak, John M. Sculptor Jules Dalou. New York: Garland, 1977
Images
Dalou, Delacroix Memorial, 1890 (Luxembourg Garden, Paris, 6th arrondissement)
Dalou, Tomb of Victoir Noir, 1890 (Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris). Noir was shot dead by Napoleon III's cousin.
Dalou's grave in Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris
Dalou, Tomb of Auguste Blanqui, 1885 (Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris). Blanqui was a relentless equal rights advocate.
Triumph of the Republic
Jules Dalou, 1879-89