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MARIUS JEAN ANTONIN MERCIE (1845-1916)

David Vainquer (c. 1890 France)

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Bronze

UK/USA Dimensions

  28.25 inch high

European Converted Dimensions

  71.75 cm high

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Marius Jean Antonin Mercié was born on 30 October, 1845 in Toulouse. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Alexandre Falguiere and Francois Jouffroy and in 1868 won the Grand Priz de Rome. The prize enabled him to study in Italy and from there he produced his first most popular success ‘David Vainquer’. It was exhibited at the Paris Salon, receiving wide public acclaim and winning him a first class medal. The lifesize original is now at the Musée d'Orsay. He achieved great success during his lifetime, becoming president of the French Artists Society in 1913 and attaining the rank of Grand Officer in the Légion d’Honneur. Mercié died in Paris in 1916.

MERCIE
Type Artist/Maker
Country of origin France
Born 1845
Died 1916

Jean Antonin Mercié was born in Toulouse and studied with Jouffroy and Falguière. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1868 when he was just twenty-three years old. His career was long and successful. His sculpture David with the head of Goliath received public acclaim and is considered to be one of the most important works of the neo-renaissance movement. He became not only president of the French Artists Society but also an officer of the Légion d’Honneur.
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