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French painter
Le Lion et la Lionne , gardens of the
Vaux-le-Vicomte castel ,
Maincy (
Seine-et-Marne )
Eternal Youth , finial figure for the
Manitoba Legislative Building ,
Winnipeg
Drama in the Desert, Parc Montsouris
Georges Gardet (October 11, 1863 – 6 February 1939) was a French sculptor and
animalier .
Biography
The son of a sculptor, Gardet attended the
École des Beaux-Arts in the atelier of
Aimé Millet and
Emmanuel Fremiet (another noted animalier). Gardet's wife Madeleine was the sister of painter and decorator
Jean Francis Auburtin , who collaborated with Gardet on work for the Parisian
Exposition Universelle (1900) .
Gardet was made an Officer of the
Legion of Honor in 1900, and was a member of the
Académie des Beaux-Arts , and the Society of French Artists.
Work
bronze Drama of the Desert ,
Parc Montsouris , Paris, 1891
two animal groups (tiger attacking buffalo, leopard catching a turtle) flanking the entrance to the Musée des Sciences of Laval, France, 1892
[1]
lion groups at the
Pont Alexandre III , Paris, circa 1900
lions at the
Jardin du Luxembourg , Paris
six bronze crocodiles (or "sea monsters") surrounding the base of monument The Triumph of Republic by
Jules Dalou ,
Place de la Nation , added in 1908, scrapped by the Germans in 1941
Monument to the Lion of Judah ,
Addis Ababa ,
Ethiopia
gilded finial figure
Eternal Youth , along with two bison flanking the grand staircase inside, for the
Manitoba Legislative Building ,
Winnipeg , 1918
[2]
two groups of deer for the grounds of the
Château de Sceaux in
Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine (outside Paris), 1933
bronze lion on the grounds of
St. Mark's School ,
Southborough, Massachusetts
bronze bison, Harris Circle at east entrance to Pioneers Park, Lincoln, Nebraska installed April 14–15, 1930 and dedicated May 17, 1930
References
^
Georges Gardet @ the Bronze Gallery.
^ Manitoba: a colour guidebook By Marilyn Morton
External links
Georges Gardet in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
International National Artists People