Gustave Deloye

Jean-Baptiste Gustave Deloye (30 April 1838, Sedan - 17 February 1899, Paris) was a French sculptor and medallist in the Neo-Baroque style.

He was a student of François Jouffroy and Jean-Pierre Dantan at the École des beaux-arts de Paris.

He was a frequent exhibitor at the Salon and received several commissions for monuments from the French government.

[2] His best known work is a monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi (1891), commissioned by the city of Nice, done from an original design by Antoine Étex.That same year, he contributed two bas-reliefs for a monument to Juan Santamaría, a national hero of Costa Rica, in Alajuela, created by his friend Aristide Croisy.

[4] He also created numerous decorative works at public buildings in Vienna, Rome and St. Petersburg and smaller figures for the Meissen Porcelain factory.