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Auguste Clésinger
19th-century French sculptor and painter (1814–1883)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 22 October 1814
- Died
- 5 January 1883
- Place of birth
- Besançon
- Place of death
- rue de la Chaise
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Jean-Baptiste, Auguste
- Family name
- Clésinger
- Spouse
- Solange Dudevant-Sand
- Movement
- Romanticism
- Occupation
- painter, sculptor, visual artist
- Citizenship
- France
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library
- birth name
- Jean-Baptiste Clésinger
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- educated at
- Besançon School of Fine Arts
- has works in the collection
- Art Institute of Chicago, Musée de Picardie, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Châlons-en-Champagne, Museum Baron Martin, Church of Saint-Sulpice, Musée de la Vie romantique, Musée d'Orsay, Petit Palais, Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Cleveland Museum of Art
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- name in native language
- Auguste Clésinger
- notable work
- Femme piquée par un serpent, Leda and the swan, Frédéric Chopin's tomb, Bacchante couchée
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- relative
- George Sand
- significant person
- François Willème
- student
- Joseph Charles de Blezer
- student of
- Georges-Philippe Clésinger, Bertel Thorvaldsen
- unmarried partner
- Berthe de Courrière
- work location
- Rome
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