{"Id":769,"Name":"Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercie","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EMERCI\u0026Eacute;, MARIUS JEAN ANTONIN\u003C/strong\u003E (1845-1916), French sculptor and painter, was born in Toulouse on the 30th of October 1845. He entered the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/ec/Ecoledes.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003E\u0026Eacute;cole des Beaux Arts\u003C/a\u003E, Paris, and studied under \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=151\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EFalguiere\u003C/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.insecula.com/contact/A005501.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EJouffroy\u003C/a\u003E [\u003Ca href=\u0022http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en\u0026sl=fr\u0026u=http://www.insecula.com/contact/A005501.html\u0026prev=/search%3Fq%3DJouffroy%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EEN\u003C/a\u003E], and in 1868 gained the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/pr/PrixdeRo.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EGrand Prix de Rome\u003C/a\u003E. His first great popular successes were the \u003Cu\u003EDavid\u003C/u\u003E and \u003Cu\u003EGloria Victis\u003C/u\u003E, which was shown and received the medal of honor of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/sa/Salon.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ESalon\u003C/a\u003E. The bronze was subsequently placed in the Square Montholon. \u003Cu\u003EThe Genius of the Arts\u003C/u\u003E (1877), a relief, is in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.paris.org/Kiosque/sep96/tuileries.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ETuileries\u003C/a\u003E, in substitution for \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=266\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EBarye\u0027s\u003C/a\u003E \u003Cu\u003ENapoleon III\u003C/u\u003E; a similar work for the tomb of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.gargl.net/lachaise/photos/photos-thematiques-michelet.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EMichelet\u003C/a\u003E (1879) is in the cemetery of Pre-la-Chaise; and in the same year Merci\u0026eacute; produced the statue of \u003Cu\u003EArago\u003C/u\u003E with accompanying reliefs, now erected at Perpignan. In 1882 he repeated his great patriotic success of 1874 with a group \u003Cu\u003EQuand M\u0026egrave;me!\u003C/u\u003E replicas of which have been set up at Belfort and in the garden of the Tuileries. \u003Cu\u003ELe Souvenir\u003C/u\u003E (1885), a marble statue for the tomb of Mme Charles Ferry, is one of his most beautiful works. \u003Cu\u003ERegret\u003C/u\u003E, for the tomb of \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=5\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECabanel\u003C/a\u003E, was produced in 1892, along with \u003Cu\u003EWilliam Tell\u003C/u\u003E, now at Lausanne. Merci\u0026eacute; also designed the monuments to \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=84\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EMeissonier\u003C/a\u003E (1895), erected in the Jardin de l\u0027Infante in the Louvre, and \u003Cu\u003EFaidherbe\u003C/u\u003E (1896) at Lille, a statue of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.bartleby.com/65/th/Thiers-A.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EThiers\u003C/a\u003E set up at St Germain-en-Laye, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.gargl.net/lachaise/photos/photos-thematiques-baudry.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003Emonument\u003C/a\u003E to \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=273\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EBaudry\u003C/a\u003E at Pre-la-Chaise, and that of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Philippe_of_France\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ELouis-Philippe\u003C/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Amalie_of_Bourbon-Sicilies\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EQueen Am\u0026eacute;lie\u003C/a\u003E for their tomb at Dreux. His stone group of \u003Cu\u003EJustice\u003C/u\u003E is at the Hotel de Ville, Paris. Numerous other statues, portrait busts, and medallions came from the sculptor\u0027s hand, which gained him a medal of honor at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Exhibition_of_1878\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EParis Exhibition of 1878\u003C/a\u003E and the grand prix at that of 1889. Among the paintings exbibited by the artist are a \u003Cu\u003EVenus\u003C/u\u003E, to which was awarded a medal in 1883, \u003Cu\u003ELeda\u003C/u\u003E (1884), and \u003Cu\u003EMichaelangelo studying Anatomy\u003C/u\u003E (1885) his most dramatic work in this medium. Merci\u0026eacute; was appointed professor of drawing and sculpture at the \u0026Eacute;cole des Beaux Arts, and was elected a member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.academie-francaise.fr/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EAcademie Francaise\u003C/a\u003E in 1891, after being awarded the biennial prize of the institute of 800 in 1887.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://59.1911encyclopedia.org/M/ME/MERCIE_MARIUS_JEAN_ANTONIN.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":7}