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, 1889, 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
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a French sculptor and painter during the Second Empire under Napoleon III.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Bust of Carpeaux Saint Roch Cemetery
The Seasons turning the celestial Sphere for the Fountain of the Observatory, Jardin du Luxembourg
Why Born Enslaved! 1868, National Museum in Warsaw