List of works by Antonin Mercié

Marius Jean Antonin Mercié was born in Toulouse and attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied under François Jouffroy and Alexandre Falguière.

By 1874 Mercié's fame was growing and in that year he submitted the work Gloria Victis (Gloire aux Vaincus) to the Salon and this enjoyed great success.

From 1880 onwards he practiced also as a painter and was made Professor of design and sculpture at the École des Beaux Arts where he was to inspire many artists including Constantin Brâncuși.

Mercié is regarded as having been a member of the group known as the "École toulousaine" along with Laurent Marqueste (1848–1920), Victor Segoffin (1867–1925), Jean-Marie Mengue (1855–1949) and Auguste Seysses (1862–1946).

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] "A la Suisse, en reconnaissance de l'hospitalité donnée à l'armée française 1870"This translates as "To Switzerland in recognition of the hospitality given to the French army in 1870".

A portrait of Antonin Mercié by Ramon Casas conserved at MNAC in Barcelona
Sculpture Gloria Victis , designed by Antonin Mercié. Placed at the roundabout between Boulevard Victor Hugo and Boulevard Aristide Briand in Châlons-en-Champagne in 1890. A gift by Don de Joseph Chevalier. In his composition Gloria Victis , Mercié puts forward the patriotic proposition that France had demonstrated honour and achieved glory even in the defeat of 1870.
Mercié's statue of Ernest Meissonier
Francis Scott Key monument in Baltimore
Belfort war memorial
The tomb of Paul Baudry
Tomb of Jules Michelet. Mercié's allegory of "History" steps over Michelet's corpse
Tomb of Lahovary. A naked man holds a funeral urn and looks down pensively at the tomb below. The figure is an allegory for grief and is entitled Douleur
Statues of Louis-Philippe of France and Maria Amalia