François Joseph Bosio
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Baron François Joseph Bosio was a Monegasque sculptor who achieved distinction in the first quarter of the nineteenth century with his work for Napoleon and for the restored French monarchy.
Quadriga on the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Paris, commemorating the Restoration of the Bourbons.
Portrait of Bosio by Julien-Léopold Boilly
Hyacinth (1817)
Hercules fighting Acheloos transformed into a snake (1824)
Column of the Grande Armée
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The Column of the Grande Armée is a 53 metre high Corinthian order triumphal column on the Rue Napoleon in Wimille, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
François Joseph Bosio
…of his titles, he continued to receive official commissions, as the ablest portrait sculptor in Paris, and created the statue of Napoleon for the Column of the Grande Armée in 1840 under Napoleon III. He died in Paris. Apart from the imperial busts and the statue of Louis XVI, other important works included the quadriga…
Column in 2007
The Column of the Grande Armée, with its flanking pavilions
The top of the Column of the Grande Armée today