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Born January 4, 1784 • Dijon • France
Died November 3, 1855 (aged 71) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Prix de Rome

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Stone sculpture La Marseillaise by Francois Rude on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, depicting a group of French volunteers led by a winged female figure.
Young Neapolitan Fisherboy Playing with a Tortoise, marble sculpture by François Rude, 1831.
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Portrait of Auguste Rodin standing indoors, wearing a buttoned, two-toned coat with a full beard and tousled hair, looking slightly to the side.
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“Monument of Lady Elizabeth Nightingale,” white and black marble sculpture by Louis-François Roubiliac, 1761; in the Chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey, London
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Monument to the Dead, stone sculpture by Albert Bartholomé, 1895; in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.
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Clodion: Cupid and Psyche
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Psyche Abandoned, marble sculpture by Augustin Pajou, 1791.
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Tony Garnier
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