Jules Dalou
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Aimé-Jules Dalou was a 19th-century French sculptor, admired for his perceptiveness, execution, and unpretentious realism.
Jules Dalou in his studio, 1899
Detail of the Triumph of the Republic, 1899, Place de la Nation, Paris
The Reader, plaster statuette, circa 1871–1879. Petit Palais Museum
Bust of Albert Ludovici, Sr., 1873, at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Place de la Nation
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The Place de la Nation is a circle on the eastern side of Paris, between the Place de la Bastille and the Bois de Vincennes, on the border of the 11th and 12th arrondissements. The square acquired its
Jules Dalou
…Triumph of Silenus. For the city of Paris he executed his most elaborate piece, The Triumph of the Republic, erected after twenty years of work in the Place de la Nation, showing a symbolical figure of the Republic, aloft on her car, drawn by lions led by Liberty, attended by Labour and Justice, and followed by Abundance…
The Triumph of the Republic by Aimé-Jules Dalou
Claude Perrault's winning project for the Place du Trône's triumphal arch, ca. 1670
Panoramic view of the Place de la Nation