Marc Ferrez (sculptor)
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Marc Ferrez was a French sculptor and engraver who spent a large part of his career in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Bust of Pedro I of Brazil (original by Marc Ferrez).
Bust of Pedro I of Brazil, by an unknown sculptor after the original by Marc Ferrez
Auguste Marie Taunay
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Auguste-Marie Taunay was a French sculptor.
Marc Ferrez (sculptor)
…Lebreton had brought a group of artists to Brazil, arriving on 25 March 1816. These included the painter Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768–1848), the sculptor Auguste Marie Taunay (1768–1824) and his brother the painter Nicolas Antoine Taunay (1755–1830), the engraver Charles-Simon Pradier (1786–1847)) and the architect…
The Cuirassier (1807) on the entablement of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, French cavalry General during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars known as “The Hussar General"
Upper frieze with sculptures of soldiers: Taunay's cuirassier (left), Corbet's dragoon, Joseph Chinard's horse grenadier and Jacques-Edme Dumont's sapper.
General view of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel