Sébastien Auguste Baussan (24 May 1829,
Avignon
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– 23 February 1907,
Montpellier
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) was a French sculptor.
Life
Originally from Avignon, Auguste Baussan was trained by his father
Joseph Baussan (1791–1871), himself a sculptor, and by the painter
Charles Matet in Montpellier. Baussan actively participated in the Montpellier artistic milieu of the second half of the
19th century with Matet,
Michel Maximilien Leenhardt,
Édouard-Antoine Marsal and
Frédéric Bazille
Jean Frédéric Bazille (; December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted '' en plein ai ...
. He subsequently taught as professor of sculpture at the Montpellier École des Beaux-Arts.
Works
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Agde
Agde (; ) is a commune in the southern French department of Hérault. It is the Mediterranean port of the Canal du Midi. It is situated on an ancient basalt volcano, hence the name "Black Pearl of the Mediterranée".
Location
Agde is locate ...
:
** Place de la Belle Agathoise: ''Agathé'', or ''La Belle Agathoise'' (1858).
** Promenade: ''Monument Ã
Claude Terrisse'' (1875).
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Alès
Alès () is a Communes of France, commune and Subprefectures in France, subprefecture in the Gard Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania Regions of France, region in Southern France. Until 1926, i ...
:
** Jardin du Bosquet: ''Monument Ã
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, Fermentation, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the la ...
'' (1896).
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Béziers
Béziers (; ) is a city in southern France. It is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Hérault Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region. Every August Béziers ho ...
:
** Cimetière Vieux: ''Monument funéraire de Fortuné Singla'' (1876).
*
Lodève
Lodève (; , ; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Departments of France, department of Hérault, in the Regions of France, region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, southern France. It is a Subprefectures in France, subprefe ...
:
** Cimetière: ''Monument funéraire de Georges Fabre'' (1882).
*
Montpellier
Montpellier (; ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of France, department of ...
:
**
Centre hospitalier Saint-Éloi:
*** ''Monument à Combal'' (1894).
*** ''Monument à Dubrueil'' (1894).
*** ''Monument Ã
Jacques-Mathieu Delpech'' (1898).
** Cimetière protestant:
*** ''Monument funéraire d'Ernest Audibert'' (1902).
*** ''Monument funéraire de
Frédéric Bazille
Jean Frédéric Bazille (; December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted '' en plein ai ...
'' ().
** Cimetière Saint-Lazare:
*** ''Monument funéraire de Polge'' (1904).
*** ''Monument funéraire de Joseph et Auguste Baussan'' (1906).
** Église Saint-Roch: ''Statue de
Saint Roch
Roch (lived c. 1348 – 15/16 August 1376/79; traditionally c. 1295 – 16 August 1327), also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invo ...
'' (1894).
** Square Planchon: ''Monument Ã
Jules Émile Planchon
Jules Émile Planchon (21 March 1823 – 1 April 1888) was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault. He was a brother of Gustave Planchon who also studied medicinal plants.
Biography
After receiving his Doctorate of Science at the Universit ...
'' (1893).
**
Université de Montpellier
The University of Montpellier () is a public research university located in Montpellier, in south-east of France. Established in 1220, the University of Montpellier is one of the oldest universities in the world.
The university was split into ...
: ''Buste d'
Armand Sabatier
Armand Sabatier (, , ; 13 January 1834 – 22 December 1910) was a French zoologist known for his studies of comparative anatomy of animals, and for his work in photography, discovering and publishing in 1860 the Sabattier effect, also known as ps ...
'' (1905).
References
Citations
Bibliography
* Oliver, Valerie Cassel, ed. (2011)
"Baussan, Sébastien Auguste" In ''
Benezit Dictionary of Artists
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''.
Oxford Art Online
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.
1829 births
1907 deaths
19th-century French sculptors
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