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Laurent-Honoré Marqueste (Toulouse 12 June 1848 — Paris, 5 April 1920) was a French sculptor in the neo-Baroque Beaux-Arts tradition. He was a pupil of François Jouffroy and of Alexandre Falguière. Marqueste won the Prix de Rome in 1871.Life
Marqueste was born at Toulouse, 12 June 1848.
He made his official debut at the Paris salon of 1874 (with his painting Jacob and the Angel). 
In 1893, he became a professor at the  École des Beaux-Arts of Paris. In 1884 he received the Legion of Honour (becoming an officer in 1894, and commander in 1903). He became a member of the Institut de France in 1894.
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