Jean-Baptiste Hugues

Jean-Baptiste Hugues was a French sculptor.
He won the Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1875. He was resident at the Villa Medicis from 1876 to 1879. When he was alive, he gained some fame : his works were exhibited at the Salons and were always commented on by critics and writers at the time. He produced several sculptures including La Fontaine des Danaïdes in Marseille or La Gravure at the National Library, pediments, bas-reliefs on monuments, busts, fountains and ceilings of Parisian restaurants.

Works

Ombres de Paolo et Francesca da Rimini, outline for the Prix de Rome, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1877Femme jouant avec son enfant, marble, La Piscine (museum of art and industry), Roubaix, 1880Œdipe à Colone, Musée d'Orsay, 1885La República Argentina, bronze, Escuela Técnica Raggio, Buenos Aires, 1889Limoges and Nantes, allegorical statues for the Gare de Tours, for architect Victor Laloux, 1898

allegorical figures of Courage and Strength for the Hôtel de Ville, Tours, for Laloux, c. 1900La Muse de la source, font, marble and bronze, Musée d'Orsay, 1900La Misère, Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, 1907La Vigne, terracotta, Musée d'OrsayBuste de M^elle Rateau, patinated plaster