Clésigner, Auguste
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Birthname | Clésigner, Jean-Baptiste | ||||
born on | 22 October 1814 at 15:00 (= 3:00 PM ) | ||||
Place | Besançon, France, 47n15, 6e02 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m6e02 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
French sculptor and painter. At the 1847 Paris Salon, he created a sensation with his 'Woman bitten by a serpent' (please see wikilink for a picture) produced from life-casts from his model Apollonie Sabatier (the pose being particularly suitable for such a method), thus reinforcing the scandal with an erotic dimension. Appolonie Sabatier was a salonnière and the mistress of Charles Baudelaire and others. The sculpture's beauty was praised by Théophile Gautier:
'Clésinger has resolved this problem of making beauty without cuteness, without affectation, without mannerism, with a head and a body of our own time, in which can be recognised his mistress if she is beautiful'
At the death of the composer-pianist Frédéric Chopin on 17 October 1849, Clésinger made Chopin's death mask and a cast of his hands. He also sculpted, in 1850, the white marble funerary monument of Euterpe, the muse of music, for Chopin's grave at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris.
Relationships
- business associate/partner relationship with Sabatier, Apollonie (born 7 April 1822). Notes: model for the sculpture woman bitten by a snake
- lover relationship with de Courrière, Berthe (born 1 June 1852)
- has other family relationship with Sand, George (born 1 July 1804). Notes: mother-in-law
- (has as) recipient relationship with de Courrière, Berthe (born 1 June 1852). Notes: heiress
Events
- Relationship : Marriage 19 May 1847 (to Solange Dudevant daughter of George Sand)
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- Social : Great Publicity 1849 (Knighted Légion d'honneur)
- Relationship : End significant relationship 1855 (divorce and death of daughter)
- Social : Great Publicity 1864 (Officer Légion d'honneur)
Source Notes
Collection Didier Geslain
Categories
- Vocation : Art : Fine art artist (sculptor/painter)