Louis-Ernest Barrias
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Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905) was a French sculptor who won the Prix de Rome in 1865 and became one of the most successful academic sculptors of the Third Republic. His Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science (1899), a polychrome marble and onyx figure, is his most famous work.
Barrias created public monuments, allegorical figures, and portrait busts throughout Paris. His polychrome approach, using different colored stones in a single figure, was innovative for its time.
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About Louis-Ernest Barrias
Barrias' Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science (1899), a polychrome marble and onyx figure at the Musée d'Orsay, is his most celebrated work. He was a leading French academic sculptor.
The Nature Unveiling is at the Musée d'Orsay. Other works are at the Louvre and in Paris public spaces.
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