Jean Jules Salmson - Artist Info

About Jean Jules Salmson

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    Salmson exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1859, and worked on various monuments in Paris including those at L'Opera, les Tuileries, and le tribunal de Commerce. As well as being known for his Orientalist subject matter he is known for his statues of great historical figures such as Shakespeare, Rubens, Hamlet and Byron. The present pair are perhaps his best known figures and he modeled the female figure in 1880 and the male in 1875. Jean Jules Salmson lived from 1823 to 1902....

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