Lavoisier in his laboratory-Louis Ernest Barrias-MG 1617
1900 · plaster
Louis-Ernest Barrias
French, 1841
WA-00012868
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39
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65
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- Artsy (bulk)Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred85%
- Artist IndexTier 3 · Scraped/inferred35%
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Louis-Ernest Barrias was a French sculptor working in the Beaux-Arts tradition, known for classical figural work executed in marble and bronze. He won the Prix de Rome in 1865, enabling extended study at the French Academy in Rome, where he refined the academic sculptural vocabulary that defined his practice. His work embodied the formal restraint and mythological subject matter central to nineteenth-century French salon sculpture.
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![[Three men in discussion]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Three%20men%20in%20discussion%2C%20by%20Louis-Ernest%20Barrias%20%28Getty%20108KKX%29.jpg)
![[Angels keeping watch over Romans]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Angels%20keeping%20watch%20over%20Romans%2C%20by%20Louis-Ernest%20Barrias%20%28Getty%20108KKB%29.jpg)
![[View of a busy Roman street]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/View%20of%20a%20busy%20Roman%20street%2C%20by%20Louis-Ernest%20Barrias%20%28Getty%20108KKV%29.jpg)
![[Two men conversing on a patio]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Two%20men%20conversing%20on%20a%20patio%2C%20by%20Louis-Ernest%20Barrias%20%28Getty%20108KKW%29.jpg)
![[Poet reclining while at work]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Poet%20reclining%20while%20at%20work%2C%20by%20Louis-Ernest%20Barrias%20%28Getty%20108KKY%29.jpg)
![[Musicians perform under a canopy on a boat]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Musicians%20perform%20under%20a%20canopy%20on%20a%20boat%2C%20by%20Louis-Ernest%20Barrias%20%28Getty%20108KKN%29.jpg)
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39 published of 39 catalogued · 38 with image
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- 1869 · Wikidata · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1893 · Nga · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1883 · Wikidata · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1900 · Wikidata · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1900 · Wikidata · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1893 · Wikidata · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1883 · Wikidata · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1870 · Wikidata · 5 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- — · Wikidata · 4 provWikidata·titleWikidata·mediumWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
- 1898 · Wikidata · 4 provWikidata·titleWikidata·year_createdWikidata·primary_image_urlWikidata·artwork_type
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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National Gallery of Art
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French Academy in Rome
Visual Arts · 1869
Beaux-Arts de Paris
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