François Théodore Devaulx, or Théodore-François Devaulx, (September 15, 1808 – January 21, 1871) was a French

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Biography

In 1823, Devaulx was a student of Jules Ramey (1796 - 1852) at the École des beaux-arts de Paris. He received the a second prize at the

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in 1833. He participated in the Salon des artistes français, of which he was a member, from 1845 to 1870. He received a third class medal at the Salon of 1849. He is buried in the

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36th division.

Works

Public collections

* ''Esquisse pour le concours de sculpture de la République'' (1848), Château de Nemours * ''

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'' (1866), façade nord de la cour Carrée du

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* ''Général Bouscarin'', musée du domaine national de Versailles *''Cavalier grec'' (1853) in stone, a statue installed on one of the pillars of the pont d'Iéna bridge in Paris. *''Mme Devaulx, sa femme'', in the

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Bibliography

* Emmanuel Bénézit, ''Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs'', tome 3, Gründ, 1976. .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Devaulx, Francois Theodore 1808 births 1871 deaths 19th-century French sculptors École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs alumni Sculptors from Paris Prix de Rome for sculpture