Joseph-Hugues Fabisch

Joseph-Hugues Fabisch (born Aix-en-Provence, 1812; died Lyon, 1886) was a French sculptor.

In 1852 he produced the Virgin on top of the chapel of the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière in his studio on the quays of the Saône.

When his studio was flooded, the statue's unveiling was put back to 8 December, which has since then been celebrated as Lyon's fête des lumières.

[1] This was the artist's masterwork, copied later on all over the world, but caused a polemic on its adequacy to the young peasant girl's visions, who did not approve it.

In 1868, Fabisch created another Madonna, this one with the Child, for the crypt of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Lourdes.

Sainte Catherine (1866), at the angle of rue Sainte-Marie-des-Terreaux and rue d'Algérie, Lyon
The Virgin of Lourdes, the most famous work of Fabisch
The Virgin of the Carthusians, Church of Saint-Bruno des Chartreux , Lyon
The Virgin of Fourvière, Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière , Lyon