Jean-Antonin Carles (1851 – 18 February 1919) was a French

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

Born in

Gimont Gimont (; ) is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France. It is about west of Toulouse. It is the seat (capital) of the canton of Gimone-Arrats. Geography The commune is bordered by seven other communes: Escornebœuf to the ...

, Carlès began his studies in Marseille and then successively to the École des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse and that of Paris. He was a pupil of

François Jouffroy François Jouffroy (1 February 1806 – 25 June 1882) was a French sculptor. Biography Jouffroy was born in Dijon, France, the son of a baker, and attended the local drawing school before being admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 18 ...

(1806–1882) and

Ernest-Eugène Hiolle Ernest-Eugène Hiolle (5 May 1834 – 5 October 1886) was a French sculptor who specialized in classical and allegorical figures in plaster and bronze, as well as many contemporary portrait busts. Hiolle was born in Valenciennes, where he stu ...

(1834–1886), he won the Grand Prix de l' Exposition Universelle in 1889. He belonged to the Society of French Artists. Several models of his sculptures (''La Jeunesse'', ''Retour de chasse'') are kept at the Musée des Jacobins d'

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(

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). He died in Paris.

Main works

* ''La Cigale'', plaster, Salon de 1878, Musée de Lectoure (Gers). * ''Le Mendiant'', plaster, Salon de 1879, Musée des Jacobins d'Auch (Gers). * Charles VII, stone, 1879, facade of the city hall of

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(Oise). * ''Abel'', plaster,

Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers The Musée des beaux-arts d'Angers is a museum of art located in a mansion, the "logis Barrault", place Saint-Éloi near the historic city of Angers. Building The museum is part of the Toussaint complex, which includes the garden of Fine Arts, ...

. * ''Abel'', marble,

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French a ...

. * ''La Jeunesse'', plaster,

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, Nogent-sur-Seine. * ''La Jeunesse'', marble, 1885,

(Paris). * ''Retour de Chasse'', bronze, awarded at the Exposition Universelle of 1889,

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(Allée de Diane) in Paris. * ''Hommage à Pierre Goudouli'', ''Salle des Illustres'' at the Capitole de Toulouse. * ''Au Champ d'Honneur'', stone, 1894, Château de La Boissière-École. * Sépulture d' Henri Cernuschi, stone, 1896, Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (Section 66). * ''Etude'', bust, marble, exposed at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français of 1898. * ''Bacchus'', bronze, 1903,

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon is a museum of fine arts opened in 1787 in Dijon, France. It is one of the main and oldest museums of France. It is located in the historic city centre of Dijon and housed in the former ducal palace which was ...

. * ''Monument au Commandant Olympe Hériot'', marble, 1906, Ecole Hériot, La Boissière-École. * ''Portrait de Mlle Simone'', marble, exposed at the Salon des Artistes Français of 1907. * Bust of

Armand Fallières Clément Armand Fallières (; 6 November 1841 – 22 June 1931) was a French statesman who was President of France from 1906 to 1913. He was born at Mézin in the ''département'' of Lot-et-Garonne, France, where his father was clerk of ...

, marble, 1908, Palais de l'Élysée. * ''Le Lot-et-Garonne à ses enfants illustres; les Lauriers'', bronze, 1912,

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. * ''Monuments aux enfants Schneider'', bronze, 1913,

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(Bourgogne). * ''Max Barthou - Fils de Léon Barthou'', marble, 1913,

(Paris). * ''Buste d'adolescent'', marble, 1913,

Musée du Luxembourg The Musée du Luxembourg () is a museum at 19 rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Established in 1750, it was initially an art museum located in the east wing of the Luxembourg Palace (the matching west wing housed the Marie de' ...

(Paris).Base Arcade
Buste d'adolescent
/ref> * ''Patrie'', marble, exposed at the

Salon des Artistes Français The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

de 1914. * Monument for

Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named afte ...

, bronze, Dôle. * Buste d' Henri Cernuschi, marbel, Musée Alsacien (Strasbourg).

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carles, Antonin 1851 births 1919 deaths People from Gers École des Beaux-Arts alumni 20th-century French sculptors 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French male artists