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Louis-Ernest Barrias

French sculptor (1841–1905)

Louis-Ernest Barrias

Louis-Ernest Barrias, c. 1899

Born(1841-04-13)13 April 1841

Paris, France

Died4 February 1905(1905-02-04) (aged 63)

Paris, France

NationalityFrench
EducationÉcole des Beaux-Arts
Known forSculpture
Notable workJeune Fille de Bou Saada
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MovementRomantic; Art Nouveau

Louis-Ernest Barrias (13 April 1841 – 4 February 1905) was a French sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school.

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In 1865 Barrias won the Prix de Rome for study at the French Academy in Rome.

Barrias was involved in the decoration of the Paris Opéra and the Hôtel de la Païva in the Champs-Élysées. His work was mostly in marble, in a Romantic realist style indebted to Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.

Biography

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He was born in Paris into a family of artists.

His father was a porcelain-painter, and his older brother Félix-Joseph Barrias a well-