Alphonse Dumilatre

Jean Alphonse Edme Achille Dumilatre, also known as Achille Dumilâtre, was a French sculptor.

Biography

A student of Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and Jules Cavelier at the École des beaux-arts de Paris, Alphonse Dumilatre became known especially at the Salon de Paris between 1866 and 1878, where some of his works such as Le Général Decaen, Le Colonel Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau, and Montesquieu were acquired by the State.
Among his other works, the Monument of Joseph Croce-Spinelli in Paris at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, the Bust of in Veracruz, The Assembly of the Greeks, Dispute of Achilles and Agamemnon, Young Harvester in Paris at the Jardin du Luxembourg, the Monument to Pierre Leroux in Boussac, and the marble statue of Montesquieu in the garden of the Four Columns at the Palais Bourbon in Paris.
His Monument to Jean de La Fontaine erected in the Jardin du Ranelagh in Paris in 1891 was melted down in 1942 as part of the Mobilization of non-ferrous metals.