Albert Bartholomé

[1] He studied law and fought in the Franco-Prussian War in General Bourbaki's army and became a prisoner in Switzerland.

In due course he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied painting under Barthélemy Menn and Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Funerary sculpture was very much in vogue in France at that time and much of Bartholomé's is death related and his masterpiece is the monument in Père Lachaise Cemetery dedicated to all the dead.

The "Monument the Dead" is disturbing and involves twenty-one larger-than-life-size figures all showing different emotions and reactions to death.

[7] "La Musique" completed the composition, this allegory standing on the left-hand side of the three seated women.

[28] In 1924 Bartholome executed a monument to Victorien Sardou which was erected by a public fountain in the Place de la Madeleine.

Bartholomé's sculpture on his wife's grave at Bouillant near Crépy-en-Valois. His first work of sculpture. He had trained as a painter but was persuaded to try sculpture by Degas and created a sculpture for his wife's grave.