Fran%C3%A7ois Pompon
Franois Pompon was a French sculptor and animalier. Pompon made his Salon debut in 1879, exhibiting a statue of Victor Hugos Cosette . He was a pioneer of modern stylized animalier sculpture. He was not fully recognized for his artistic accomplishments until the age of 67 at the Salon dAutomne of 1922 with the work Ours blanc, also known as the White Bear. Pompon died in Paris, France, onMay 1933.
Pompon, the son of a cabinet maker, was born onMay 1855 in Saulieu, Burgundy, France. At agehe was working as an apprentice marble carver in a Dijon funerary monument company, but soon thereafter took up studies at the school of fine arts in Dijon. By 1873 his family had moved to Paris where the FrancoPrussian War had caused significant damage to the French capital just a few years prior to his arrival. Pompon found work on rebuilding projects, beginning with his work to produce architectural ornamentation for the new Hotel de Ville de Paris.
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