Paul Dubois (sculptor)

He began studying law to please his father who practiced as a notary, but gave this up in order to train as a sculptor; his enthusiasm for this possibly fanned by the admiration he had for the work of his great-uncle Jean-Baptiste Pigalle.

[2] In 1858 he entered the atelier of Armand Toussaint at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts.

The following year he travelled to Rome, studying and copying the many great sculptures and mixed with the likes of Henri Chapu, Alexandre Falguière and Georges Bizet.

When he returned to France he completed the study of a young troubadour, Chanteur florentin du XVe siècle, a work which was to bring him such popular success.

[8] "HIC STAT PRO AEDIBUS SUIS RENOVATIS ANNAS MOMORANTIUS MAGISTER EQUITUM PRIMUS SAE GENTIS DUX ET PAR FRANCIAE GALLICUS CONCTATOR COGNOMINATUS QUI IN MULTIS SAUCIUS PRAELIIS VITAM VITRAQUE FORTUNA MIRE INSEGNEM COMINUS PUGNANS FINIVIT; DIE XII NOVEMB.A.D.MDLX VII AETATIS LXXIV; POSITA EST EFFIGIES A.D.MDCCCLXXXVI""LA GRANDE GUERRE POUR LA CIVILISATION / DE GROTE OORLOG DE BESCHAVING"This museum was established by Dubois and Alfred Boucher and holds information relating to Dubois.

Narcisse by Paul Dubois. A marble version decorates the façade of the Louvre in Paris and another is at the Musée d'Orsay
The allegorical statue representing "Military courage". One of the four statues at each corner of the cenotaph to General de La Moricière in Nantes cathedral. A good example of Dubois' "neo-florentine" style
Chanteur florentin du XVe siècle by Paul Dubois
Souvenir, Alsace-Lorraine by Paul Dubois. Statue stands in place Saint-Jean in Nancy. Allegories of Alsace and Lorraine console each other. The work mourns the loss to France of Alsace and Lorraine following the 1870 war with Prussia.
Sculpture on Dubois family grave