Jean Antonin Mercié

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Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of Robert E. Lee, May 29, 1890. Richmond, Virginia.

Lee, unveiled

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.

[edit] Works in the United States

• Robert E. Lee Monument, Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, (1890)

• General Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette Monument, Lafayette Square, Washington D.C., (1891)

• Francis Scott Key Memorial, Baltimore, Maryland, (1911)

[edit] References

• DuPriest Jr., James E. and Douglas O. Tice, Jr. Monument & Boulevard:Richmond's Grand Avenues, A Richmond Discoveries Publication, Richmond, Virginia, 1996

• Goode, James M. The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington D.C. 1974

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

• Rusk, William Sener, Art in Baltimore: Monuments and Memorials, The Norman Remington Company, baltimore, 1924