François Rude
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François Rude was a French sculptor, best known for the Departure of the Volunteers, also known as La Marseillaise on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.. His work often expressed patriotic themes, as well
Portrait by Sophie Rude (1842)
A plaster molding of The Hunt of Meleager 1821–23, Rude Museum, Dijon
Mercury Fastening his Sandals After Killing Argos, 1827, The Louvre
Bust of La Pérouse, 1828
Sophie Frémiet
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Sophie Rude was a French painter.
François Rude
…crown prince at Tervuren. The work was a frieze around the rotunda of the Hall of Honor. Among the other artists selected to work on the frieze was Sophie Fremiet, also a painter, who became Rude's wife. The friezes by Rude represented a classical hunting scene, The Hunt of Meleager for the entry portico and a…
Self-portrait of Sophie Rude, née Frémiet, 1841
Sophie Frémiet served as the model for the figure of The Genius of War, in the Departure of the Volunteers created by her husband, François Rude, on the Arc de Triomphe.
The death of Cenchirias, son of Neptune and the nymph Peirene, 1821–23