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See also:FREMIET, See also:EMMANUEL (1824- ) , See also:French sculptor, See also:born in See also:Paris, was a See also:nephew and See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Rude; he chiefly devoted himself to See also:animal See also:sculpture and to equestrian statues in See also:armour; His earliest See also:work was in scientific See also:lithography (See also:osteology), and
for a while he served in times of adversity in the gruesome See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of " painter to the Morgue." In 1843 he sent to the See also:Salon a study of a " Gazelle," and after that date' was very prolific in his See also:works. His " Wounded See also:Bear " and " Wounded See also:Dog " were produced in 185o, and the Luxembourg Museum at once secured this striking example of his work. From 1855 to 1859 Fremiet was engaged on a See also:series of military statuettes for See also:Napoleon III. He produced his equestrian statue of " Napoleon I." in 1868, and of " See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis d'See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans" in 1869 (at the Chi3.teau de See also:Pierrefonds) and in 1874 the first equestrian statue of " See also:Joan of Arc," erected in the See also:Place See also:des Pyramides, Paris; this he afterwards (1889) replaced with another and still finer version. In the meanwhile he had exhibited his masterly " See also:Gorilla and Woman " which won him a See also:medal of See also:honour at the Salon of 1887. Of the same See also:character, and even more remarkable, is his " Ourang-Outangs and See also:Borneo See also:Savage " of 1895, a See also:commission from the Paris Museum of Natural See also:History. Fremiet also executed the statue of " St See also:Michael " for the See also:summit of the See also:spire of the Eglise St See also:Michel, and the equestrian statue of Velasquez for the Jardin de 1'See also:Infante at the Louvre. He became a member of the Academie des See also:Beaux-Arts in 1892, and succeeded See also:Barye as See also:professor of animal See also:drawing at the Natural History Museum of Paris.
End of Article: FREMIET, EMMANUEL (1824- )
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