Mathurin Moreau - Artist Info

About Mathurin Moreau

  • Biography

    Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) was a French sculptor in the academic style. He was born in Dijon, first exhibited in the 1848 Salon, and finally received a medal of honor from the Salon in 1897. He was made mayor of the XIXe arrondissement, Paris, and in 1912 had a street named in his honor.

    Selected Works:
    La Fileuse, marble, Palais du Luxembourg
    Cologne, limestone, 1865, façade de la gare du Nord
    Nymphe fluviale, the Place du Theâtre-Français, Paris (1874)
    L'Océanie, from the Exposition Universelle (1878), Musée d'Orsay courtyard
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