GATTEAUX, JACQUES ÉDOUARD (French). Sculptor and Medallist, son of N. M. Gatteaux, was born at Paris on the 4th November 1788, where he died on the 9th February, 188 1. He learned medal-engraving with his father, and sculpture under Moitte. In 1809, he obtained the Prix de Rome, and as a pupil of the French Academy at Rome, greatly distinguished himself. On his return to France he was called to the office of Medallist to Louis XVIII. and executed a number of fine medals on the Peace of 1814, the Holy Alliance and Portrait-medallions of contemporaneous celebrities. Edouard Gatteaux's first medal commemorates the capitulation of Mantua, 1797 (illustrated), of which there are two varieties; it was executed in 1807. In 1809, his medal representing "Mars followed by Victory" won for him the Prix de Rome. In 1824, he received a medal, and again in 183 1 ; knighted in 1833, and elected a Member of the Institute in 1845 ; in 1855 he was granted a medal of the first class and in 186 1 was created an officer of the Legion of Honour. Between 1807 and 1847, when he appears to have engraved his last portrait-piece, Gatteaux has executed no less than 289 medals, amongst which are the following : Reestablishment of the French School at Rome; — Peace of Paris, 1814, and Restoration of the Bourbons; — Peace of 181 5 ; — The Holy Alliance ; — 18 17, H.R.H. Monsieur, the King's brother; — Pierre Corneille; — Montaigne ; — La Fontaine ; — Malherbe ; — Richelieu ; — Buffon ; — J. F. Ducis ; — Jean Philippe Rameau ; — Pierre Puget ; — Inauguration of the Louis XIII. Statue on the Place royale, 1829; — 1819, Puget; — Rabelais; — Haydn ; — Mme de Staël; — Philibert de l'Orme; — Jean Varin; — Cassini, 1825; — Various jetons; — 1824, Zamoisky, Polish chancellor in 1704; — Gaspard Monge, one of the founders ofthe Ecole polytechnique ; — Massena, Marshal of France ; — G. Edelinck, copper-plate engraver; — Barthelemy ; — Mirabeau ; — Coronation of Charles X. ; — 1827 . Journey of Charles X. through the provinces; — 1833, Coronation of Louis-Philippe; — Portrait of Louis-Philippe; — Lafayette; — P. A. Delanneau, Director of Ste Barbe College; — Beethoven; — Nicolas Gatteaux; — Taking of Antwerp Citadel ; — Prize Medal of the Ecole royale des Beaux-Arts; — 1835, Surrender of Antwerp Citadel ; — Por- trait of N. Gatteaux; — Charles Mercier-Dupaty, French Sculptor, 1825 ; — Duke of Enghien, 1804; — Royal Academy of Music, 18 16 ; — The Deputies of La Vendée, 1820; — Jeton of the Chamber of Notaries of Evreux; — The Comte d'Artois visits the Paris Mint, 18 18; — Jean Pierre Cortot ; — Modeste Grétry, French musician, 18 14; — Jeton of Bordeaux; — Marriage of the Prince Royal, 1837; — 1847, Sully. Amongst his most important works of sculpture, it may be worth mentioning : Bust of Napoleon ; — Bust of Marie-Louise; — Stat- ue of Chevalier d'Assas; — Triptolemus ; — Statue of Hippolyte Bisson, erected at Lorient, 1833; — Anne de Beaujeu, Duchess of Bourbon and Auvergne (Luxemburg Gardens); — Minerva after the Judgment of Paris, 1839 ; — Michael Angelo ; — Grand Prize Medal for Engraving ; — &c. In his Notice of Gatteaux, read before the " Académie des Beaux-Arts", M. Chaplain, makes the following remarks : "L'activité de la gravure en médailles, au début du si?cle, fut longtemps assez limitée. Tiolier et Michaux, ? qui l'on doit les monnaies de l'Empire, celles de Louis XVIII et de Charles X, n'ont gn?re fait autre chose. Andrieux, Brenet, Caunois, Petit, ont montré plus de soin que d'invention originale; plus tard seulement, ? l'époque o? Domard nous a donné la monnaie de Louis-Philippe, on vit s'ap pliquer ? cet art un plus grand nombre de talents. Barre p?re, Bovy, Depaulis, Desb?ufs, Gayrard. C'est dans ce milieu et ? sa date qu'il faut replacer M. Gatteaux, qui d?s le premier quart du si?cle, onna l'exemple d'une singuli?re application. Il a gravé 289 médailles. Celle de l'École des Beaux-Arts est faite d'apr?s un dessin de M. Ingres. Toutes les autres sont exclusivement de lui, depuis la médaille commemorative de la capitulation de Mantoue, en 1808, jusqu'? celle de Sully, en 1847, la derni?re qu'il ait gravée, croyonsnous. "Il avait fondé la série des illustrations françaises ou galerie métallique ; il lui a donné un tr?s grand nombre de portraits de grands hommes : Malherbe, Richelieu, Varin, Gérard Edelinck, l'abbé Barthélémy, Cassini, P. Corneille, La Fontaine, Montaigne, Buffon, P. Puget, Rabelais, Mrae de Staël, Philibert de l'Orme, Mirabeau, Monge, Masséna. " Le critique et l'artiste étaient assez différents chez M. Gatteaux. Le critique comprenait toutes les perfections de la Renaissance, sa variété si vivante, et, plus tard, il s'éprit de l'art grec, alors qu'on commença ? le bien connaître. L'artiste, plus réservé et plus timide, s'en tint ? l'idéal que représentait surtout l'art romain. C'est dans cet esprit que sont conçues la plupart de ses ?uvres. On s'étonne de la réserve qu'il s'impose, de la prudence avec laquelle il imite la Renaissance. II adore l'antiquit6; mais, quand il s'en ins pire, il nous fait penser malgrd nous aux poetes classiques et aux tragedies du premier Empire. Ce qu'il recherche avant tout, c'est une dignite un peu froide, une simplicity qui pourrait etre plus ele gante, si la vie y etait plus naturelle et plus sensible. " Of the medal struck in commemoration of the establishment of the Architectural School of Paris, Larousse expresses the following opinion : " Cette medaille, d'un module enorme, ?tait moins un travail de numismatique qu'un excellent morceau de sculpture. La tete de Philibert Delorme, representee sur la face, est, en effet, dessinee et modelee avec une ampleur magistrale, qu'on rencontre rarement dans la gravure en médailles. " In 1855, Gatteaux obtained a medal for his exhibits at the Salon. After that date, he seems to have taken a well-deserved rest. Better gifted than his father, he did not, however, surpass him very much as a medallist. His numerous works of statuary and sculpture have bestowed upon him greater notoriety, and as a critic remarked, " his name will ever remain amongst the most distinguished names of French Art. " Gatteaux was for a long period of years a member of the Consul- tative Committee on Coinage. He was a collector of taste, but had the sorrow to see a portion of his art treasures destroyed during the conflagration that followed the insurrection of 1871. At his death, he made an important bequest to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Chavignerie et Auvray, op. cit. — Dr F. P. Weber, op. cit. — Thomsen Catalogue. — Hennin, Numismatique de la Révolution française, Paris, 1826. — J. C. Chaplain, Notice sur M. Gatteaux, 1881 . — Grande Encyclopédie — Grand Dictionnaire Larousse. — Nouveau Larousse illustré.
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
FRENCH DANIEL CHESTER
FRENCH DANIEL CHESTER (Amer.). Contemporary Sculptor, residing at New- York. He is one of the most popular and at the same time one of the best sculptors now living in the United States of America. The artist was born in New Hampshire and spent his early life at Concord. The Magazine of Art (1901, p. 311) has devoted an interesting article to this brilliant representative of American genius, from which an idea may be gathered of his achievements. As a Medallist, we known him only as the author o...
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FRITZ
FRITZ (Germ.). Die-sinker at Brunswick, circa 1830-1859. By this engraver are the following medals : Erection of the Waterloo Column, 1837; — Adolph Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, 1831 ; — Military Reward of King Ernest Augustus of Hanover, 1837 ; — George, Crownprince of Hanover, 1843 ; — William, Duke of Brunswick, 1838; — Double Thaler of 1856, on the 25th Anni- versary of William's reign; — Thaler of 1859, &c. Apparently this artist was attached to the Brunswick Mint as Coin-ana Medal-engrave...
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FRITZ (Germ.). Die-sinker at Brunswick, circa 1830-1859. By this engraver are the following medals : Erection of the Waterloo Column, 1837; — Adolph Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, 1831 ; — Military Reward of King Ernest Augustus of Hanover, 1837 ; — George, Crownprince of Hanover, 1843 ; — William, Duke of Brunswick, 1838; — Double Thaler of 1856, on the 25th Anni- versary of William's reign; — Thaler of 1859, &c. Apparently this artist was attached to the Brunswick Mint as Coin-ana Medal-engrave...
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FROMENT-MEURICE, CHARLES FRANÇOIS MARIE JACQUES
FROMENT-MEURICE, CHARLES FRANÇOIS MARIE JACQUES (French). A contemporary manufacturing Jeweller of Paris; pupil of Chapu and Patey, who has within the last fifty years produced a large number of gems, camei in Renaissance or modern styles, intagli after the antique, and every variety of artistic jewels. His master piece was the magnificent bust of Napoleon III., cut in aquamarine, and which disappeared in the fire of the old Paris Hôtel-de-Ville, 1871. At the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1900, he...
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FROMENT-MEURICE, CHARLES FRANÇOIS MARIE JACQUES (French). A contemporary manufacturing Jeweller of Paris; pupil of Chapu and Patey, who has within the last fifty years produced a large number of gems, camei in Renaissance or modern styles, intagli after the antique, and every variety of artistic jewels. His master piece was the magnificent bust of Napoleon III., cut in aquamarine, and which disappeared in the fire of the old Paris Hôtel-de-Ville, 1871. At the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1900, he...
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FROULLÉ, ADGUSTE ADOLPHE
FROULLÉ, ADGUSTE ADOLPHE (French). Sculptor and Gem-engrav- er, born at Paris, on the 15th July, 1821; pupil of M. Naigeon. The following exhibits are recorded by Chavignerie et Auvray : S. 1848, Diogenes, shell cameo; — S. 1852, Mars and Venus; — S. 1 86 1, The Death of Hyrnetho, wife of Deiphontes, King of Epidaurus, engraved cameo; — S. 1862, Apollo and Thetis, engraved cameo; — S. 1864, The Prosperity of the Empire, shell cameo; — S. 1866, Alcides conquering Jealousy, cameo; — S. 1869, The O...
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FROULLÉ, ADGUSTE ADOLPHE (French). Sculptor and Gem-engrav- er, born at Paris, on the 15th July, 1821; pupil of M. Naigeon. The following exhibits are recorded by Chavignerie et Auvray : S. 1848, Diogenes, shell cameo; — S. 1852, Mars and Venus; — S. 1 86 1, The Death of Hyrnetho, wife of Deiphontes, King of Epidaurus, engraved cameo; — S. 1862, Apollo and Thetis, engraved cameo; — S. 1864, The Prosperity of the Empire, shell cameo; — S. 1866, Alcides conquering Jealousy, cameo; — S. 1869, The O...
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