Joseph-Charles Marin
Appearance
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Joseph-Charles Marin (1749, in Paris – 18 September 1834, in Paris) was a French sculptor
Life
[edit]He was a student of Claude Michel and made several attempts to win the Grand Prix de Sculpture before the French Revolution, only winning it in 1801 with the bas-relief Caius Gracchus leaving his wife Licinia.
Michel was a strong influence on Marin's early style, which was light, elegant and gracious. He later adopted more austere subjects and style closer to the canons of neo-classicism then in force. In 1813 he became a professor at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon on the death of his former teacher Joseph Chinard, the post's previous holder.
Bibliography
[edit]- Patrice Bellanger, Joseph-Charles Marin, Sculpteur, Paris, 1992, Galerie Patrice Bellanger éditeur, (ISBN 2-9506583-0-X), 88 pages. Catalogue of the 1992 exhibition, 27 works.
- Emmanuel Schwartz, Les Sculptures de l'École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Histoire, doctrines, catalogue, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2003, p. 141
External links
[edit]- Joseph-Charles Marin in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website