Eugène-Louis Lequesne
Eugène-Louis Lequesne was a French sculptor. Lequesne was born and died in Paris. In 1841, he entered the École nationale des beaux-arts, in James Pradier's workshop. In 1843, he won the second Prix de Rome, and in 1844 the first prize, with a plaster bas-relief entitled Pyrrhus tuant Priam. He lived at the Académie de France à Rome from 1844 to 1849, alongside Jean-Louis Charles Garnier. In 1855, he was awarded the Great Prize for sculpture at the Exposition Universelle, and received the Légion d'honneur.
Main works
- figures representing Rouen and Amiens, on the façade of the Gare du Nord, Paris, circa 1862
- colossal finial figure of La Bonne Mère, Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille, 1867
- plaster figure of Camulogene, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 1872
- two Pegasus figures, Palais Garnier, ParisFaune Dansant, Jardin du Luxembourg, ParisLa Foi, La Charité et L'Espérance, Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris
- two medallions on the façade of the Musée de Picardie in Amiens: Thuillier Constant and Du Cange
- two caryatids on the façade of the Musée de Picardie in Amiens: L'Industrie and La SculptureMasque d’Homère, Museum of BeaufortFaune Dansant, Musée des Beaux-Arts de BordeauxPrêtresse de Bacchus, Musée des Beaux-Arts de CambraiÀ quoi rêvent les jeunes filles and Vercingétorix vaincu défiant les soldats romains, Museum of ChartresLe buste de Laënnec, Faculté de médecine de ParisThuillier, Museum of RoanneLe Maréchal de Saint-Arnaud, Palace of VersaillesRenommée retenant Pégase, Musée d'Orsay, Paris