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Louis Joseph Daumas
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Name
Louis-Joseph Daumas
Died
1887, Paris, France
Education
Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts
Louis-Joseph Daumas (1801-1887) was a French sculptor and medallist.
Born in Toulon, Daumas was admitted into the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1826, and entered the atelier of David d'Angers.
Daumas's work includes:
Genius of Navigation, bronze statue of French Admiral Jules de Cuverville with four bas-reliefs on the base, port of Toulon, 1847, reconstructed after its destruction in World War II
exterior statue of François Eudes de Mézeray, Cour Napoléon in the Louvre, Paris, prior to 1853
Roman cavalier and his horse, on the right bank of the Pont d'Iéna (Jura Bridge), Paris, 1853
equestrian sculpture of José de San Martín in the Plaza San Martín of Buenos Aires, 1862, with copies at the Parque del Oeste in Madrid, and Central Park in New York City
equestrian sculpture at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, 1864
