Stoning St Stephen Saint-Etienne-du-Mont

Gabriel-Jules Thomas (10 September 1824 – 8 March 1905) 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 Paris. Thomas attended the

École des Beaux-Arts ; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...

and in 1848 he won the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

in the sculpture category with his ''Philoctète partant pour le siège de Troie'' ("Philoctetes Leaves for the Siege of Troy") in

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. This piece was briefly displayed in New York City at the

Dahesh Museum of Art The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only museum in the United States devoted to the collection and exhibition of European academic art of the 19th and 20th century. The collection, located in Manhattan, New York City, originated with Lebanese write ...

for their 2005–2006 exhibition entitled "The Legacy of

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." It is normally kept at the

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts The (), formally the (), is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level fine arts education and training. The art school, which is part of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, is located on two sites: Saint-G ...

in Paris. He later taught at the Ecole. Among his students were

Gaston Lachaise Gaston Lachaise (March 19, 1882 – October 18, 1935) was a French-born sculptor, active in America in the early 20th century. A native of Paris, he is most noted for his robust female nudes such as his heroic '' Standing Woman''. Gaston Lachaise ...

.and American sculptor, August Zeller.

Works

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'', 1861, marble, Paris,

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) () is a museum in Paris, France, on the Rive Gauche, Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. The museum holds mai ...

* ''

Mademoiselle Mars Mademoiselle Mars (pseudonym of Anne Françoise Hyppolyte Boutet Salvetat; 9 February 1779 – 20 March 1847), French actress, was born in Paris, the natural daughter of the actor-author named Monvel (Jacques Marie Boutet) (1745–1812) and Jean ...

'', 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, western France. Building The museum is part of the Toussaint complex, which includes the gar ...

* ''The Stoning of St. Stephen'', the church of

Saint-Étienne-du-Mont Saint-Étienne-du-Mont () is a church in Paris, France, on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement, near the Panthéon. It contains the shrine of St. Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris. The church also contains the tombs of ...

, Paris, 1863 * ''Frankfurt'', 1864–1865, stone, Paris, façade for the

Gare du Nord The Gare du Nord (; ), officially Paris Nord, is one of the seven large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. The station is served by trains that run between the capital and northern France via the Paris–Lille railway, as well ...

train station * ''Bust of

Augustin Dumont Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (), known as Auguste Dumont (4 August 1801, Paris – 28 January 1884, Paris) was a French sculptor. Biography Auguste Dumont was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of Pierre Dumont, son of Jacq ...

'', bronze, 1877,

Pont-Audemer Pont-Audemer () is a commune in the Eure department in the Normandy region in northern France.Musée Alfred Canel * Memorial to Baron Taylor,

Père Lachaise Cemetery Père Lachaise Cemetery (, , formerly , ) is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at . With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world. Buried at Père Lachaise are many famous figures in the ...

, Paris, circa 1879

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* 1824 births 1905 deaths Sculptors from Paris French sculptors French male sculptors Prix de Rome for sculpture {{France-sculptor-stub