Mathurin Moreau

Mathurin Moreau (18 November 1822 – 14 February 1912) was a French sculptor in the academic style.

Contents

• Les chroniques de mathurin moreau
• Mathurin moreau avec sous titres francais
• Selected works
• References

Moreau was born in Dijon, first exhibited in the 1848 Salon, and finally received a medal of honor from the Salon in 1897. He was made mayor of the 19th arrondissement of Paris, and in 1912 had a street named in his honor.

Selected works

La Fileuse, marble, Palais du Luxembourg

Cologne, limestone, 1865, façade de la gare du Nord

Nymphe fluviale, the Place du Theâtre-Français, Paris (1874)

L'Océanie, from the Exposition Universelle (1878), Musée d'Orsay courtyard

Zenobe Gramme, bronze, Musée des Arts et Métiers courtyard, Paris

Monument de Joigneaux, for which he received the medal of honor, Salon of 1897

Tomb of Zenobe Gramme, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, circa 1901

Lord Strathcona Fountain, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, unveiled 1 July 1909

Fountain of the Continents (The original name was La Fontaine de L'Observatoire), Mendoza (Argentina), 1910.