Jean-Paul Aubé (3 July 1837 – 23 August 1916) was a French sculptor.

Buste de Hollandaise, by Jean-Paul Aubé, La Piscine (museum of art and industry).

Aubé was born in Longwy, north eastern France, and educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.[1]

He died at Capbreton.

Main works edit

  • Dante, 1879, plaster, model of the bronze statue of the place Marcellin Berthelot, to the Collège de France in Paris
  • Buste de hollandaise, La Piscine (museum of art and industry)
  • La Comtesse Hallez, Musée d'Orsay
  • Monument à Léon Gambetta, erected in the Cour of Napoleon of the Louvre, a 27-meter monument inaugurated on 14 July 1888, permanently removed from the court of Napoleon in 1954.
  • La statue de J.B.Colbert aux Manufactures des Gobelins.

References edit

  1. ^ "Aube, Jean Paul" . New International Encyclopedia. Vol. II. 1905. p. 230.

External links edit

  • Jean-Paul Aubé in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website