Jean-Antoine Injalbert (; 3 February 1845 – 20 January 1933) was a French sculptor.

Life

The son of a stonemason, Injalbert was a pupil of

Augustin-Alexandre 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 ...

and won the prestigious

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 1874. At the Exposition Universelle of 1889 he won the Grand Prix, and in

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15 ...

was a member of the jury. On the day of the inauguration of the

Pont Mirabeau The pont Mirabeau () is an arch bridge which spans the Seine in Paris. It was built between 1895 and 1897 and named after Honoré Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau. It was listed a historical monument in 1975. Location The bridge spans the Seine, conn ...

in Paris, Injalbert was made an officer of the

Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

. In 1905, he was made a member of the

Institut de France The ; ) is a French learned society, grouping five , including the . It was established in 1795 at the direction of the National Convention. Located on the Quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the institute manages approximately ...

, and in 1910 promoted to Commander of the Légion d'honneur. His work shows powerful imagination and strong personality, as well as great knowledge. From about 1915, he became influential as a teacher, at the

Académie Colarossi The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi. It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the ...

and as chief instructor at the

École des Beaux Arts École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

. Among his many students were Prague sculptor

František Bílek František Bílek (6 November 1872, Chýnov – 13 October 1941, Chýnov) was a Czech people, Czech sculptor and architect, in the Art Nouveau and Symbolism (movement), Symbolist styles. Biography His father was a wheelwright. He graduated from ...

Alfred Janniot Alfred Auguste Janniot (13 June 1889 – 15 July 1969) was a French Art Deco sculptor most active in the 1930s. Biography Janniot was educated at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, a pupil of Jean Antoine Injalbert, and was the winner of t ...

, Fernand Guignier, Gleb W. Derujinsky and the American sculptor

Edward McCartan Edward Francis McCartan (August 16, 1879 – September 20, 1947) was an American sculptor, best known for his decorative bronzes done in an elegant style popular in the 1920s. Life Born in Albany, New York, he studied at the Pratt Institute, ...

, and

Aaron Goodelman Aaron Goodelman (1890 – 1978) was an American sculptor. He graduated from art school in Odessa, fleeing Eastern Europe for the United States in 1904 because of antisemitic violence.. He attended a number of major art schools in New York and Pari ...

Work

* four allegorical figures on the

, Paris: ''The City of Paris, Navigation, Commerce'' and ''Abundance,'' 1896 * monument to

Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, ; ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world liter ...

Pézenas Pézenas (; Languedocien: ''Pesenàs'') is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Name The name "Pézenas" is derived from the older name ''Piscenae'', probably from the Latin word ''piscenis'', meanin ...

, 1897 * Crucifixion, at the Cathedral of Rheims, 1898 * ''Bordeaux'' and ''Toulouse'', allegorical statues for the

Gare de Tours Gare is the word for "station" in French and related languages, commonly meaning railway station Gare can refer to: People * Gare (surname), surname * The Gare Family, fictional characters in the novel '' Wild Geese'' by Martha Ostenso Places * ...

, 1898, for architect

Victor Laloux Victor-Alexandre-Frédéric Laloux (; 15 November 1850 – 13 July 1937) was a French Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts architect and teacher. Life Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André, with his st ...

* tympanum depicting the city of Paris surrounded by muses,

Petit Palais The (; ) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Built for the Exposition Universelle (1900), 1900 Exposition Universelle ("universal exhibition"), it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (''Musée des beaux-arts ...

Paris, circa 1900 * allegorical figures of the

Loire The Loire ( , , ; ; ; ; ) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône. It rises in the so ...

and the Cher rivers, for the

Hôtel de Ville, Tours The (, ''City hall (administration), City Hall'') in Tours, France houses the city's offices. The building, ornate inside and out, was designed by Tours native architect Victor Laloux and completed in 1904. It was designated a ''monument histor ...

, for Laloux, c. 1900 * figures of ''Electricity'' and ''Commerce'' on the

Pont de Bir-Hakeim The — , (), named after the 1942 battle in Libya; formerly the (, (the Bridge of Passy), until 1948 — is a steel open spandrel deck arch bridge on stone masonry starlings, which crosses the River Seine in Paris. It connects the 15th and ...

, Paris, 1905 * ''Monument to the Dead'', Béziers, 1925 * ''Hippomenes'' at the

Jardin du Luxembourg The Jardin du Luxembourg (), known in English as the Luxembourg Garden, colloquially referred to as the Jardin du Sénat (Senate Garden), is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. The creation of the garden began in 1612 when Mar ...

, Paris * ''Eve After the Fall'', in

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 ...

* ''monument to Sadi-Carnot'' in

Sète Sète (; , ), also historically spelled ''Cette'' (official until 1928) and ''Sette'', is a commune in the Hérault department, in the region of Occitania, southern France. Its inhabitants are called ''Sétois'' (male) and ''Sétoises'' (fem ...

* ''Love Conquering the Lion'', ''Fame'', ''The Laughing Child'' and several others, in Béziers * figure of

Honoré Mirabeau Honoré is a name of French origin and may refer to several people or places: Given name Sovereigns of Monaco Lords of Monaco *Honoré I, Lord of Monaco, Honoré I of Monaco Princes of Monaco *Honoré II, Prince of Monaco, Honoré II of Monaco ...

at the

Panthéon (Paris) The Panthéon (, ), is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It stands in the Latin Quarter (Quartier latin), atop the , in the centre of the , which was named after it. The edifice was built between 1758 and 1790, from designs ...

* bust of

Louis Gallet Louis Gallet (14 February 1835 in Valence, Drôme – 16 October 1898) was a French writer of operatic libretti, plays, romances, memoirs, pamphlets, and innumerable articles, who is remembered above all for his adaptations of fiction —and ...

, in

Valence, Drôme Valence (, ; ) is a Communes of France, commune in southeastern France, the prefecture of the Drôme Departments of France, department and within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region. It is situated on the left bank of the Rhô ...

Gallery

File:Pezenas soubrette.JPG, Detail of the Monument to

File:France Paris Petit Palais renove Entree 02.jpg, Entrance to the

, Paris File:Pont mirabeau injalbert navigation.jpg, ''Navigation'' at the

File:Toulon- 074.jpg, Monument to

Pierre Puget Pierre Paul Puget (16 October 1620 (or 31 October 1622) – 2 December 1694) was a French Baroque painter, sculptor, architect and engineer. His sculpture expressed emotion, pathos and drama, setting it apart from the more classical and academ ...

, Toulon

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