List of works by Louis-Ernest Barrias

He entered the studio of François Jouffroy in 1858 as a student at the l'École des Beaux-arts and in 1861 he won second place in that year's Prix de Rome with the composition "Chryséis rendu à son père par Ulysse".

He returned to France when the Franco-Prussian war broke out and enrolled in the Marne National Guard.

He received many honours, was made a member of the Institute, and was professor at the l'École des Beaux-arts from 1894 until his death.

Many of Barrias' bronze sculptures were melted down either directly by the Germans or by order of the Vichy regime during 1941 and 1942.

The bas-reliefs survived the German dismantling and can be seen, together with a Denys Puech medallion of Hugo's friend Meurice in Veules-les-roses[50] [51] [53] The Grenoble museum also hold a plaster relief by Barrias showing him at work in his laboratory in 1900.