List of works by Antoine Bourdelle

The year 1910, saw his Héraklès tue les oiseaux du lac Stymphale of 1909 shown at the Salon and this was a huge success!

Whilst working as a sculptor he also taught at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse, his pupils including Alberto Giacometti, Aristide Maillol, René Iché and Germaine Richier.

In 1913 an exhibition of modern art in New York included his Héraklès and Tête d’Apollon, the commission for the monument to Genéral Alvéar in Argentina was formalized and he carried out the sculptures for the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

[2] Many works by Bourdelle can be seen in the Musée Bourdelle- Buste de Beethoven, Adam, Le bélier rétif, Centaure mourant, La Liberté and Vierge à l'enfant.

1926 finally saw his Alvéar monument inaugurated after 10 years of work and a version of La France was exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries.

In the third, three sappers are shown in a tunnel fixing support shafts whilst in the final relief we have a dead soldier held in the arms of a winged angel who represents the motherland and wears a phrygian bonnet.

Léon Vogt, a pupil of Bourdelle, owned potash mines in Alsace and in 1914 his mother vowed that if the family property was kept from destruction during the war she would commission a statue to celebrate this.

The same study but now 6m high was placed on the slope of the wooded hill above Niederbruck in the Manavaux valley to fulfil Mme Voigt's vow.

[2] In Bourdelle's work the baby Jesus is held above her shoulder by the Virgin Mary, His arms are outstretched so his body takes on the form of a Cross.

[25] "Moi je suis Bacchus / qui pressure pour les hommes / son nectar délicieux"[28][29]"I don't know if in fact my face has all that gravity, all that philosophical profundity; but...

[39][40]In 1916 Bourdelle also created a small votive depicting St Barbe which is held by the Lyon Musée des Beaux-Arts.

Bourdelle was asked to create the votive by the family of his brother-in-law, Dr Couchoud, as protection for their son who was away fighting in the artillery.

[46] " Moi je suis Bacchus / qui pressure / pour les hommes / le nectar délicieux / Beethoven""Un bon écollier des cchores"In the period 1907 to 1910, and apart from "Le bélier rétif" he worked on "Petite Pastorale" in 1907, "Faune et Chèvres" from 1908 to 1909, "Bélier Couché" in 1908 and "La Truie" in 1909.