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      <h1 class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (1845-1916)</h1>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">French sculptor and painter, was born in Toulouse. He entered the école des Beaux Arts, Paris, and studied under Alexandre Falguière and Jouffroy, and in 1868 gained the Grand Prix de Rome. His first great popular successes were the David and Gloria Victis, which was shown and received the Medal of Honour of the Paris Salon. The bronze was subsequently placed in the Square Montholon.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img border="0" src="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/uploads/artists/artists_l-z/mercie/Mercie_GloriaVictis.JPG" alt="art" width="411" height="606"><br>
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        <div  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><strong>Gloria Victis, 10 ft 3 in<br>
          The largest bronze we have appraised so far.</strong></div>
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">The bronze David was one of his most popular works. The Biblical hero is depicted naked with the head of Goliath at his feet like Donatello's David, but with a turbaned head and sheathing his long sword.<br>
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        Numerous reproductions exist, most of which partially cover David's nudity with a loincloth. The life size original is now in the Musée d'Orsay.<br>
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        In 1887 the Lee Monument Commission chose Jean Antoine Mercie to be the sculptor of The Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img border="0" src="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/uploads/artists/artists_l-z/mercie/Mercie_Lee.JPG" alt="art" width="215" height="257"><br>
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        <div  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><strong>Robert E. Lee monument<br>
          Richmond, Virginia</strong></div>
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Other works by Mercié are:</p>
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        <li>The Genius of the Arts (1877), a relief, is in the Tuileries, in substitution for Antoine-Louis Barye's Napoleon III.</li>
        <li>A similar work for the tomb of Jules Michelet (1879) is in the cemetery of Père Lachaise.</li>
        <li>In the same year Mercié produced the statue of Arago with accompanying reliefs, now erected at Perpignan.</li>
        <li>In 1882 he repeated his great patriotic success of 1874 with a group Quand Meme! replicas of which have been set up at Belfort and in the garden of the Tuileries.</li>
        <li>Le Souvenir (1885), a marble statue for the tomb of Mme Charles Ferry, is one of his most beautiful works.</li>
        <li>Regret, for the tomb of Alexandre Cabanel, was produced in 1892, along with William Tell, now at Lausanne.</li>
        <li>Mercié also designed the monuments to Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1895), erected in the Jardin de l'Infante in the Louvre.</li>
        <li>Louis Faidherbe (1896) at Lille.</li>
        <li>A statue of Adolphe Thiers set up at St Germain-en-Laye.</li>
        <li>The monument to Paul Baudry at Père Lachaise.</li>
        <li>That of Louis-Philippe and Queen Amélie for their tomb at Dreux.</li>
        <li>His stone group of Justice is at the Hotel de Ville, Paris.</li>
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Numerous other statues, portrait busts, and medallions came from the sculptor's hand, which gained him a medal of honor at the Paris Exhibition of 1878 and the grand prix at that of 1889.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img border="0" src="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/uploads/artists/artists_l-z/mercie/Mercie_DanceOfTheSword.JPG" alt="art" width="382" height="578"><br>
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        <div  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><strong>The Dance of the Sword</strong></div>
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      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img border="0" src="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/uploads/artists/artists_l-z/mercie/Mercie_DavidHoldingRock.JPG" alt="art" width="338" height="558"><br>
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        <div  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><strong>David Holding Rock</strong></div>
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Among the paintings exhibited by the artist are:</p>
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        <li>Venus, to which was awarded a medal in 1883.</li>
        <li>Leda (1884)</li>
        <li>Michelangelo studying Anatomy (1885), his most dramatic work in this medium</li>
        <li>Mercié was appointed Professor of Drawing and Sculpture at the école des Beaux Arts, and was elected a member of the Academie Francaise in 1891, after being awarded the biennial prize of the Institute in 1887.</li>
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">He was subsequently elected to grand officer of the Légion d'Honneur, and in 1913 became the president of the Société des Artistes Français. He died in Paris in 1916.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img border="0" src="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/uploads/artists/artists_l-z/mercie/Mercie_GloriaVictis2.JPG" alt="art" width="372" height="544"><br>
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