Bernard Seurre

Bernard-Gabriel Seurre or Seurre the Elder was a French sculptor. His younger brother Charles Émile Seurre was also a sculptor.

Life

Born in Paris, Bernard Seurre was a student of the sculptor Pierre Cartellier. In 1818 Bernard Seurre won the Prix de Rome for sculpture with a relief on the subject Chilonis imploring mercy for her husband Cleombrotus He then produced sculptures for the Arc de Triomphe between 1833 and 1836 and produced a design for a sculpture on top of it in 1833.
He died in Paris.

Works

Arc de triomphe

The Battle of Aboukir, bas-relief, stone, east façade, above The Apotheosis of Napoleon I and The Triumph of 1810 by Jean-Pierre Cortot

Entablature frieze, west façade, right half
Entablature frieze, south façade, left halfDesign for sculpture on top of the Arc de triomphe - allegory of France victorious, drawing, Paris, musée d'Orsay

Other

Molière standing in meditation, over-life-size, bronze, Paris, Musée du LouvreMolière, bronze, Paris, 1844, fontaine Molière, junction of rue de Richelieu and la rue MolièreJean de La Fontaine, statue, marble, Paris, palais de l'InstitutModesty, statue, Paris, cimetière du Père-Lachaise, tomb of Pierre Cartellier, left sidePortrait of Nicolas Béhuchet, admiral of France, died 1340, bust, plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon