Bernard Seurre
Bernard-Gabriel Seurre or Seurre the Elder was a French sculptor. His younger brother Charles Émile Seurre was also a sculptor.Life
Born in Paris, Bernard Seurre was a student of the sculptor Pierre Cartellier. In 1818 Bernard Seurre won the Prix de Rome for sculpture with a relief on the subject Chilonis imploring mercy for her husband Cleombrotus He then produced sculptures for the Arc de Triomphe between 1833 and 1836 and produced a design for a sculpture on top of it in 1833.
He died in Paris.Works
- The Battle of Aboukir, bas-relief, stone, east façade, above The Apotheosis of Napoleon I and The Triumph of 1810 by Jean-Pierre Cortot
- Entablature frieze, west façade, right half
- Entablature frieze, south façade, left half
- Design for sculpture on top of the Arc de triomphe - allegory of France victorious, drawing, Paris, musée d'Orsay
Other
- Molière standing in meditation, over-life-size, bronze, Paris, Musée du Louvre
- Molière, bronze, Paris, 1844, fontaine Molière, junction of rue de Richelieu and la rue Molière
- Jean de La Fontaine, statue, marble, Paris, palais de l'Institut
- Modesty, statue, Paris, cimetière du Père-Lachaise, tomb of Pierre Cartellier, left side
- Portrait of Nicolas Béhuchet, admiral of France, died 1340, bust, plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
