List of works by Maxime Real del Sarte
The plaster model entitled "Je t'ai cherché" was first exhibited in 1920 at the Salon des Artistes Français under reference number 3396, and the composition was used by Real del Sarte for five war memorials.
Sarte works the compositions beautifully and there are connotations of Mary covering Jesus' body with a shroud or winding sheet [7] The "Ferme d'Hurtebise" is situated in Bouconville-Vauclair on the Chemin des Dames near to Craonne.
It was here that the Battle of Craonne took place on 7 March 1814 when Napoleon's army fought the combined armies of Russia and Prussia and 100 years later the same location saw bitter fighting between France and Germany, as part of the struggle to take or hold the Chemin des Dames ridge which took place throughout the 1914-1918 war and was to cost so many lives.
The Hurtebrise site was of great strategic importance because of its height and the views it enjoyed of the surrounding area and the German army dug in there in the autumn of 1914.
Thereafter there was frequent fighting to take or hold on to the area, but Hurtebrise, lying between the Caverne du dragon and the Plateau de Californie stayed for the most part in German hands until 1918.
This was called the "monument of Marie-Louise et des Bleuets" and Real del Sarte now created two figures in bronze, one a soldier in the uniform of 1814 and another a poilu of 1914–1918.
They are remarkable sculptures,[22][23] " "VIVIERS A SES ENFANTS MORTS POUR LA PATRIE"Construction of this Basilique in honour of Joan of Arc was finished in 1964.
Perhaps the best known of Real del Sarte's sculptures of Joan of Arc, this stands in the place du Vieux-Marché by the Église Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc in Rouen.
Real del Satre's work shows Joan at the stake with the flames starting to catch the bottom of her robe.
[31] Another copy of the Rouen "Jeanne au bûcher" stands in the Église Saint-Philippe, 121 rue Sylvabelle – 6e arrondissement of Marseilles.
Experts have expressed the view that Real del Sarte had been inspired by the statue of Joan of Arc sculpted by Paul Dardé for Montpellier in 1918.
At the base of the statue Real del Sarte has carved the words "J'ai fait cette œuvre avec amour pour nos amis canadiens, à la gloire de la sainte patronne de la paix du monde"This is one of five replicas of Real del Sarte's 1928 composition for Rouen known as "Jeanne au bûcher" and in 1950, Real del Sarte made a gift of the work to the then rector of Montréal University in recognition of Franco-Canadian friendship and the religious nature of the university at that time.
It carries the inscription "J'ai fait cette œuvre du plus pur symbole à la gloire de la Patrie et du Sacrifice"It is recorded that this was a gift made in 1948 by Alberto Dodero of Compañía Argentina de Navegación Dodero S.A. At the end of the Second World War, the US Congress commissioned a statue of Joan of Arc intended for the "Congressional Hall of Heroes".
This monument is dedicated to all the Polish volunteers who fought alongside the French army in the 1914-1918 war especially in May 1915 and the fighting at Souchez, Carency, and Neuville-Saint-Vaast.
The monument is situated at Choléra Farm from where a mass attack of French tanks was thrown in the direction of Juvincourt on 16 April 1917.
A plaque to the rear of the memorial recalls that on 16 April 1917, the 151st Infantry Regiment continued to advance with the assistance of Bossut's tanks right up to Béliers Wood.
[37] A monument to General Mangin was erected in the place Denys-Cochin in Paris, with sculptural work by Real del Sarte.
It was by their efforts in the Battle of the Marne from 6 to 12 September 1914 that the Franco-British forces halted the German advance and by mid-September the front started to form.
This ridge provided an excellent observation point to whoever held it and from February to April 1915, the French attempted to dislodge the Germans from it.
It was at Éparges that Real del Sarte fought and lost part of one arm, so it was fitting that he should carry out the sculpture for the regimental memorial erected in 1935.
The words "Je crois" are inscribed on the front of the memorial and on one side there is a quotation from Maurice Genevoix- "Vous qui avez pris votre vie à deux mains et l'avez portée d'un élan jusqu'aux lèvres de l'entonnoir sous les balles"The bas-relief is said to be a metaphor portraying the descent from the Cross, with Mary being France itself and Christ a soldier who has sacrificed his life for the Motherland.
[38][39] Real del Sarte's bronze statue shows Joffre on a horse and he appears to be pointing to the nearby Eiffel tower.
[40] Maxime Real del Sarte's composition on the top of this monument's pyramid shape structure features a group of three soldiers in "attack" mode.
Del Sarte himself was injured fighting in the Éparges section of the Verdun front on 29 January 1916 and part of his left arm had to be amputated.
Elisabeth Jalaguier, born in 1890, was active as a nurse in the 1914–1918 war and served at the Hôtel des Bains in Pierrefonds which was being used as a military hospital.
Also in Buenos Aires, and another gift to the city by Alberto Dodero, is a marble work entitled "La Femme au chat".
[50][51] This small statue is located in the Saint-Nicolas parish church in the rue de l'Eglise, Baboeuf in the Oise region of Picardy.
[52] For this church in the rue de la Chapelle, Sarte worked on an altar table, a cross, a war memorial and various statues and tombstones.
The tablet on the left hand side reads " MISERICORDIEUX JESUS / DONNEZ LEUR LE REPOS ETERNEL / CEUX QUI PIEUSEMENT SONT MORTS POUR LA PATRIE / ONT DROIT QU'A LEUR CERCUEIL LA FOULE VIENNE ET PRIE" whilst that on the right reads "VIERGE COMPATISSANTE / CONSOLEZ LES AFFLIGES / HEUREUX CEUX QUI SONT MORTS DANS LES GRANDES BATAILLES / COUCHES DESSUS LE SOL A LA FACE DE DIEU".
Real del Sarte completed the Stations of the Cross for the church of Saint Jean de Luz in 1950.
