Eugène-Louis Lequesne

Eugène-Louis Lequesne (or Le Quesne) (15 February 1815 – 3 June 1887) was a French sculptor.[1]

La Renommée retenant Pégase, Palais Garnier, Paris
La bonne mère, Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille

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 facade 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 Pégase, Palais Garnier, Paris
  • Faune dansant, jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
  • La Foi, La Charité et L'Espérance, Église de la Ste.-Trinité, Paris
  • Thuillier Constant, du Cange, L'Industrie, La Sculpture, museum of Amiens
  • Masque d’Homère, museum of Beaufort
  • Faune dansant, museum of Bordeaux
  • Prêtresse de Bacchus, museum de Cambrai
  • À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles and Vercingétorix vaincu défiant les soldats romains, museum of Chartres
  • Le buste de Laënnec, Faculté de médecine de Paris
  • Thuillier, museum of Roanne
  • Le maréchal de Saint Amand, museum of Versailles
  • Renommée retenant Pégase, Musée d'Orsay, Paris[2]

References
  1. "LEQUESNE (ou LE QUESNE) Eugène Louis" (in French). Héritage des Échecs Français. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
  2. "Eugène Louis Lequesne, Renommée retenant Pégase, en 1865" (in French). Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
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