Henri Michel Antoine Chapu
sculptor; b. September 29, 1833 (at Lemée, Seine-et-Oise, France) ; d. April 15, 1891.
He won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1855. Among his best works are "La Jeunesse," a figure for the monument to Henri Regnault at the École des Beaux Arts (1875), "La Pensée," a figure for the monument of Daniel Stern (1877), the monument to Mgr. Dupanloup at Orleans (1887), and the statues of Pluto and Proserpine at the château of Chantilly (1884), etc.
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In association with Semper, Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer designed at Vienna the Museums of Art and Natural History, built between 1872 and 1884.
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