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Occupation
  
Sculptor


Name
  
Andre-Joseph Allar

Andre-Joseph Allar

Born
  
August 22, 1845
Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Cote d\'Azur, France

Died
  
April 11, 1926 Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Cote d\'Azur, France

Relatives
  
Gaudensi Allar (brother)

André-Joseph Allar (1845–1926) was a French sculptor.

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Biography

André-Joseph Allar was born in Toulon on August 22, 1845.

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He became a successor sculptor. He won the Prix de Rome in 1869 for sculpture, and became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on 20 May 1905. He was also an officer of the Légion d'honneur.

He died in Toulon on April 11, 1926. A street in Marseille has been named in his honor.

Main works

  • Hécube découvrant le cadavre de Polydore, musée des Beaux-Arts à Marseille
  • La mort d’Alceste, inspired by his wife's death, Lisieux
  • Enfant des Abruzzes, musée d'Orsay
  • Thétis portant les armes d’Achille
  • Buste de Montricher, gallery of the palais Longchamp in Marseille
  • Sainte Madeleine on the facade of the Cathedral de la Major in Marseille
  • Monument de la Fédération on the place de la République in Toulon.
  • Fontaine de la place Estrangin, Marseille
  • Fontaine de la place Castellane, Marseille, in collaboration with Jules Cantini
  • Portrait de son frère Gaudensi, museum of Toulon
  • Statues de Jean Bullant et de Jean Goujon, on the front of the Mairie de Paris
  • Statue de Frédéric Le Play, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
  • Monument du Centenaire, Nice

    • References

    André-Joseph Allar Wikipedia
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