1. Louis-Ernest Barrias was a French sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school.
12 Facts About Louis-Ernest Barrias
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In 1865 Barrias won the Prix de Rome for study at the French Academy in Rome.
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Louis-Ernest Barrias was involved in the decoration of the Paris Opera and the Hotel de la Paiva in the Champs-Elysees.
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Louis-Ernest Barrias's work was mostly in marble, in a Romantic realist style indebted to Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
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Louis-Ernest Barrias was born in Paris into a family of artists.
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Louis-Ernest Barrias's father was a porcelain-painter, and his older brother Felix-Joseph Barrias a well-known painter.
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Louis-Ernest Barrias started out as a painter, studying under Leon Cogniet, but later took up sculpture with Pierre-Jules Cavelier as teacher.
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In 1865 Louis-Ernest Barrias won the Prix de Rome for study at the French Academy in Rome.
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Louis-Ernest Barrias was involved in the decoration of the Paris Opera and the Hotel de la Paiva in the Champs-Elysees.
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Louis-Ernest Barrias's work was mostly in marble, in a Romantic realist style indebted to Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
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Louis-Ernest Barrias replaced Dumont at the Institut de France in 1884 then succeeded Cavelier as professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
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Louis-Ernest Barrias was very influenced by the Art Nouveau style, which was prominent in art during the fin-de-siecle in France.