Antoine Bourdelle

Work

Bourdelle's major work includes:
spandrel reliefs for the portal of the Musée Grévin Paris 1900
the Monument aux Morts de Montauban 1902
the freestanding gilded bronze Hercules the Archer 1909
the decorative series of friezes executed for the exterior of Auguste Perret's Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1913). A second Bourdelle garden-museum in Égreville was establiAntoine Bourdelled by his heirs in the late 1960s hosts another 56 of his sculptures. Career
Bourdelle was born at Montauban Tarn-et-Garonne.

Antoine Bourdelle (30 October 1861 Montauban – 1 October 1929) born Émile Antoine Bourdelle was an influential and prolific French sculptor painter and teacher.