Victor Huguenin

Victor Huguenin studied under Jules Ramey at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Around 1836 Huguenin created a sculpture of Charles VI of France and his mistress Odette de Champdivers.

[1] A relatively small work, it was designed to be sold to a rich art-lover who could place it on a table in a salon, or in a cabinet.

It was exhibited in the Salon of 1846, and is part of the series Queens of France and famous women in the Jardin du Luxembourg.

[3] In the late 1850s Huguenin undertook the decoration of the Villa Eugénie, the Biarritz summer home of Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenie, with Corinthian columns and reliefs of arms and crowned eagles.