Frédéric Brou

Frédéric Brou

human

Ein sex anaa gender	male
Country wey e be citizen	France
Name wey dem give am	Frédéric
Family name	Brou
Ein date of birth	11 December 1862
Place dem born am	Mauritius
Date wey edie	15 May 1925
Place wey edie	Paris
Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign	French
Ein occupation	painter, sculptor
Notable work	La Gloire tirant Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle Adam de son sommeil éternel by Frédéric Brou
Has works in the collection	Musée Carnavalet
Copyright status as creator	copyrights on works have expired

Frédéric Brou (11 December 1862 - 15 May 1925) be a self-taught French painter den sculptor.

Life

Dem born am insyd Mauritius, na he sculpt den exhibit insyd Boutteville from 1887 dey go. Na der he receive advice from Antonin Larroux den Georges Lemaire. He exhibit de plaster modello give ein sculpture Eve for de 1897 'salon des artistes français', wey dey exhibit de finished work insyd marble for de same venue two years later, wer e face off against Rodin ein work for de same subject top. Na de French state commission a bust of Jules Ferry from am insyd 1899 wey he regularly exhibit for de Société des artistes français. He die insyd Pleumeur-Bodou.

Works dem select

• Fanjeaux : Monument to Hugues Destrem
• Paris :
  • musée Carnavalet : Monument to Villiers de l'Isle Adam, dem sanso know am as Glory Pulling Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle Adam From His Eternal Sleep, 1906, plaster maquette for the poet's tomb, never realised
  • square de Yorktown : Franklin Received at Court. 1778 den Signing of the Treaty of Paris. 1783, 1898, bronze bas-reliefs for de pedestal of the Monument to Benjamin Franklin by John J. Boyle
• Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, square Hameln : Eve, 1899, marble statue, de plaster modello for wich na dem exhibit for de Paris Salon of 1897

• Bas-reliefs by Brou for de pedestal of de Monument to Benjamin Franklin
• 
  Franklin Received at Court. 1778
• 
  Signing of the Treaty of Paris. 1783
• 
  De whole monument

• Oda works by Brou
• 
  Eve (1899), Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, square Hameln.
• 
  Monument to Villiers de l'Isle Adam (1906), plaster, Paris, musée Carnavalet.

Bibliography

• (insyd French) Léon Bloy, Lettres à Frédéric Brou et à Jean de la Laurencie, Éditeur Bloud et Gay, 1927.
• Dictionnaire Bénézit entry