Léon-Alexandre Delhomme

Léon-Alexandre Delhomme (20 July 1841, in Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche – 1895 or 1893, in Paris) was French sculptor. He is immortalised by a statue in the cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.

Life
He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, in the studio of Augustin Dumont (1801–1884) and of Joseph-Hugues Fabisch.

In 1867, he was elected to the municipal council of Paris.

Works



 * Statue of the Republic, in the main amphitheatre of the Sorbonne (1889). She is shown as a wise woman between an urn and a lion "removing the veil of ignorance from a young Frenchman", in one of the university's least neutral sculptures (commissioned by Soitoux).
 * Statue of Louis Blanc (1811–1882) in bronze, melted down during World War Two, located on Place Monge (Paris, 5th arrondissement)
 * Above the entrance to the Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville - Paris (4th arr.)
 * Bust of the French doctor Stanislas Laugier (1799–1872)
 * Statue Defiance known as The Gaul
 * Démocrite méditant sur le siège de l'âme.
 * Standing warrior (Gaul)
 * Medal of Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand
 * Cast iron
 * Vercingetorix,
 * Wounded Gaul,
 * Joan of Arc.