André-Joseph Allar

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André-Joseph Allar (22 August 1845 – 11 April 1926)^[1] was a French sculptor.

Biography

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

He became a successful sculptor after training under Antoine Laurent Dantan and Pierre-Jules Cavelier. Allar is best known for his small-scale work and architectural designs with majority of his work situated at the local museum in Toulon, including 'Hercules finding his dead son'.^[2] His artworks on Hercules is evidently inspired by the Greek hero, but in particular, the stories that depict the character as a saviour.^[3] His architectural features include his works in the Palacio Legislativo Federal with Laurent Marqueste^[4] and in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.^[5] Another one of his famous works is the statue of law displayed on the façade Palace of Justice, Rome.^[6]

In addition to his career as an artist, Allar joined the Legion of Honour as an officer in 1896 and the French Institute in 1905.^[2] He won various prizes but most notably the Prix de Rome in 1869 for his sculpture, and later became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on 20 May 1905.

He died in Toulon on 11 April 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^[7]
• 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
• The Youth and The Virile Age sculptures in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Mexico
• Monument du Centenaire, Nice

Gallery

• 
  Frédéric Le Play
  Jardin du Luxembourg
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  Fontaine
  Place Castellane
• 
  Henri-Jacques Espérandieu
  architect
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  Bust of André Chave
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  The Torrent from the Cantini Fountain (1911), place Castellane, Marseille
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  The Source from the Cantini Fountain (1911), place Castellane, Marseille
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  The Sea - Amphitrite from the Cantini Fountain (1911), place Castellane, Marseille
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  The Rhône from the Cantini Fountain (1911), place Castellane, Marseille

References

• Académie de Marseille, Dictionnaire des marseillais, Edisud, Marseille, 2001, (ISBN 2-7449-0254-3)
• Paul Masson, Encyclopédie des Bouches-du-Rhône, Archives départementales, Marseille, 17 volumes, from 1913 to 1937
• Adrien Blés, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Marseille, Jeanne Laffitte ed., Marseille, 1989, (ISBN 2-86276-195-8).
• Bruno Wuillequiey, Denise Jasmin, Luc Georget, Bénédicte Ottinger, Florence Dagousset and Gilles Mihière, Régis Bertrand, Marseille au XIXe, rêves et triomphes, Musées de Marseille (16 November 1991 – 15 February 1992), (ISBN 2-7118-2487-X)
• Régine Allar, La dynastie des Allar, Revue Marseille, 1982, N° 130, pages 138-143

External links

Media related to André-Joseph Allar at Wikimedia Commons