biography
pronunciation:
[rüd]
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| lived:
| (1784–1855)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, born in Dijon, E France. Apprenticed to his father as a metal-worker, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and became the leading French sculptor of the early 19th-c. Influenced by Delacroix and David, he produced the famous relief on the Arc de Triomphe, La Marseillaise (1836), and the statue of Marshal Ney (1853). His wife Sophie (1797–1867) was also a painter and pupil of David. |
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