1. Pierre-Marie Poisson was born in Niort on 19 November 1876 and died in Paris on 11 January 1953.
11 Facts About Pierre-Marie Poisson
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Pierre-Marie Poisson was born in Niort on 19 November 1876.
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Pierre-Marie Poisson practiced as a medallist and sculptor both of monuments and busts and in 1922 his home town of Niort commissioned him to carry out the sculptural work on their war memorial.
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Pierre-Marie Poisson was to work on decoration for the ocean liner "Ile-de-France", on a fountain for Paris' Trocadero and sculptures for the facade of the Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet church.
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Pierre-Marie Poisson worked until 1951 when he completed his final commission for the "Fontaine de la guerison".
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De Liniers was born in Niort and Pierre-Marie Poisson was commissioned to execute his bust for a monument there in 1910.
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Pierre-Marie Poisson was commissioned to work on one of the two lamps for the balcony of the embassy's imagined salon.
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The figure of "Victory" stands defiantly against the headwinds almost as the prow of a ship, her enormous wings enveloping and protecting the figures grouped around it and at the rear of Pierre-Marie Poisson's composition is the figure of "Douleur"; Pierre-Marie Poisson contrasts the euphoria of victory with a veiled woman depicting the despair, misery and sorrow left by the loss of so many lives.
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Pierre-Marie Poisson is accompanied by a widow and a young girl who has lost her future husband.
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Pierre-Marie Poisson stands with each arm spread along the top of the wall on which the names are inscribed.
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Pierre-Marie Poisson wears a long robe, a "phrygien" bonnet, sandals and holds a sword.