Jean Antonin Mercié

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Mariou Jean Antonin Mercié, French sculptor, born in Toulouse on October 30, 1845 and died on December 14, 1916 in Paris.

A student of Jouffroy and Falguière, Mercié won the Grand Prix de Rome when he was 23 years old.

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  • Mackay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977