Laurent Marqueste

Laurent Marqueste
profile portrait of French sculptor Laurent Marqueste - photo from Association des Amis et Passionnés du Père-Lachaise
Born
Laurent-Honoré Marqueste

(1848-06-12)12 June 1848
Toulouse, France
Died5 April 1920(1920-04-05) (aged 71)
Paris
NationalityFrench
1911 picture of the statue of Nessus and Déjanire
Nessus, 1892
(Tuileries Gardens, Paris). As can be seen in comparison with the statue in 1911, missing pieces are the arrow in Nessus and a foot and hand of Déjanire

Laurent-Honoré Marqueste (French pronunciation: [lɔʁɑ̃ ɔnɔʁe maʁkɛst]; Toulouse 12 June 1848 — Paris, 5 April 1920) was a French sculptor in the neo-Baroque Beaux-Arts tradition. He was a pupil of François Jouffroy and of Alexandre Falguière.[1] Marqueste won the Prix de Rome in 1871.

  1. ^ He executed sculpture for the monument to Falguière in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.