Eugène-Louis Lequesne



Eugène-Louis Lequesne (or Le Quesne) (15 February 1815 – 3 June 1887) was a French sculptor. Lequesne was born and died in Paris. In 1841, he entered the École nationale des beaux-arts, in James Pradier's workshop. In 1843, he won the second Prix de Rome, and in 1844 the first prize, with a plaster bas-relief entitled Pyrrhus tuant Priam (Pyrrhus killing Priam). He lived at the Académie de France à Rome from 1844 to 1849, alongside Jean-Louis Charles Garnier. In 1855, he was awarded the Great Prize for sculpture at the Exposition Universelle, and received the Légion d'honneur.

Main works

 * figures representing Rouen and Amiens, on the façade of the Gare du Nord, Paris, circa 1862
 * colossal finial figure of La Bonne Mère (The Good Mother), Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille, 1867
 * plaster figure of Camulogene, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 1872
 * two Pegasus figures, Palais Garnier, Paris
 * Faune Dansant (Dancing Faun), Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
 * La Foi, La Charité et L'Espérance (Faith, Charity and Hope), Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris
 * two medallions on the façade of the Musée de Picardie in Amiens: Thuillier Constant and Du Cange
 * two caryatids on the façade of the Musée de Picardie in Amiens: L'Industrie and La Sculpture
 * Masque d’Homère (Mask of Homer), Museum of Beaufort
 * Faune Dansant (Dancing Faun), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
 * Prêtresse de Bacchus (Priestess of Bacchus), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Cambrai
 * À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles (What young girls dream of) and Vercingétorix vaincu défiant les soldats romains (Defeated Vercingetorix defying Roman soldiers), Museum of Chartres
 * Le buste de Laënnec (''Bust of Laënnec), Faculté de médecine de Paris
 * Thuillier, Museum of Roanne
 * Le Maréchal de Saint-Arnaud (Marshal Saint-Arnaud), Palace of Versailles
 * Renommée retenant Pégase (Renown holding back Pegasus), Musée d'Orsay, Paris