Lavoisier
Created by (Aimé) Jules Dalou
Date: 1890
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: statuette
Material: metal - bronze
Technique: cast
Description: A model or small scale version of the posthumous portrait statue of the French chemist, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794), commissioned in 1886 from Dalou for the amphitheatre in the Sorbonne. The amphitheatre, named after Cardinal Richelieu, was constructed between 1885-1901 and designed by Charles Garnier and his student, Henri-Paul Nénot. The original statue in marble is 229cm high. This work is probably one of an edition of bronzes in different sizes cast by Susse frères from a model at Dalou's direction in 1892. The edition was known by a variety of titles, including the philosopher, J.J. Rousseau etc. In 1901 one of these bronzes was shown at the Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts. There are three working models and a cast from the edition by Susse frères in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. See http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html?no_cache=1&nnumid=015207&cHash=4f4ee5370b (accessed 30 April 2011).
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Sixth, 1902
1902
Citing this record
'Lavoisier', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib6_1205755716, accessed 30 Mar 2023]
