Frédéric Brou

Frédéric Brou (11 December 1862 - 15 May 1925) be a self-taught French painter den sculptor.

 Life 
Dem born am insyd Mauritius, na he sculpt den exhibit insyd Boutteville from 1887 dey go. Na der he receive advice from Antonin Larroux den Georges Lemaire. He exhibit de plaster modello give ein sculpture Eve for de 1897 'salon des artistes français', wey dey exhibit de finished work insyd marble for de same venue two years later, wer e face off against Rodin ein work for de same subject top. Na de French state commission a bust of Jules Ferry from am insyd 1899 wey he regularly exhibit for de Société des artistes français.(insyd French) René Édouard-Joseph, Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains, tome 1, A-E, Art & Édition, 1930, p. 209. He die insyd Pleumeur-Bodou.(insyd French) L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux du 28 février 1938.

 Works dem select 

 Fanjeaux : Monument to Hugues Destrem(insyd French) 
 Paris :
 musée Carnavalet : Monument to Villiers de l'Isle Adam, dem sanso know am as Glory Pulling Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle Adam From His Eternal Sleep, 1906, plaster maquette for the poet's tomb, never realised(insyd French) Léon Bloy, La Résurrection de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Paris, A. Blaizot, 1906, « La Résurrection de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam »
 square de Yorktown : Franklin Received at Court. 1778 den Signing of the Treaty of Paris. 1783, 1898, bronze bas-reliefs for de pedestal of the Monument to Benjamin Franklin by John J. Boyle
 Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, square Hameln : Eve, 1899, marble statue, de plaster modello for wich na dem exhibit for de Paris Salon of 1897

 References 

 Bibliography 

 (insyd French) Léon Bloy, Lettres à Frédéric Brou et à Jean de la Laurencie, Éditeur Bloud et Gay, 1927.
 Dictionnaire Bénézit entry

 External links 

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