List of works by Charles-Auguste Lebourg

Charles-Auguste Lebourg was a French sculptor born in Nantes in 1829.

His main works are listed below: Lebourg has three of his sculptures decorating parts of the outside of the Louvre.

The second of Lebourg's sculptures can be seen in the pavillon Richelieu where the tympanum of the arcade of the passage leading to the rue de Rivoli is decorated with Lebourg's bas relief "Vérite et Histoire".

The third sculpture, again part of the Cour Napoléon, decorates the Apollon rotunda and is entitled "La Force".

[6] The Musée d'Orsay hold the plaster model of "La Chasse".

They are named after the Englishman Richard Wallace, who financed their construction.

A great aesthetic success, they are recognized worldwide as one of the symbols of Paris.

Four sculptors worked on the monument, Georges Bareau, Charles-Auguste Lebourg, Henri Émile Allouard and Louis-Auguste Baralis.

The monument was erected in 1897 and the inauguration ceremony in April of that year was attended by Félix Faure, Jules Méline, Louis Barthou, Admiral Armand Besnard and Hippolyte-Étienne Étiennez the Nantes mayor.

In 1940 the occupying Germans dismantled the bronze believing that the slain eagle could be construed as representing the German eagle but the municipal workers of Nantes delegated to carry out the dismantlement managed to hide the sculpture, so stopping it being melted down.

"Jeune oiseleur rendant la liberté à une hirondelle".

"Le centaure Eurytion enlevant la fiancée de Pirithoüs".