Antoine Étex

Antoine Étex (March 20, 1808 ParisJuly 14, 1888 Chaville) was a French sculptor, painter and architect.

Biography He first exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1833, his work including a reproduction in marble of his Death of Hyacinthus, and the plaster cast of his Cain and His Race Cursed By God. Adolphe Thiers, who was at this time minister of public works, now commissioned him to execute the two groups of Peace and War, flanking the arch on the east facade of the Arc de Triomphe. This last, which established his reputation, he reproduced in marble in the Paris Salon of 1839.

The French capital contains numerous examples of the sculptural works of Étex, which included mythological and religious subjects besides a great number of portraits. La Paix, stone, (1833–1837), Paris, arc de triomphe de l'Étoile, western façade Tombeau de Géricault, Paris, Père Lachaise Cemetery, its plaster model was at the 1841 Salon, Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts Portrait de Léon Pelet, bust, marble, 1848, Paris, musée du Louvre Portrait du baron Dufour, maire de Metz (1769–1842), medal, marble, 1845, Metz, Grand salon de l'Hôtel de Ville Médaillon du poète Auguste Brizeux (1803–1858) at the cemetery of Carnel in Lorient; medal, marble, 1858

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