Bernard Seurre

Bernard-Gabriel Seurre or Seurre the Elder (11 July 1795 – 3 October 1867) was a French sculptor. His younger brother Charles Émile Seurre (1798–1858) was also a sculptor.

Life

Born in Paris, Bernard Seurre was a student of the sculptor Pierre Cartellier. In 1818 Bernard Seurre won the Prix de Rome for sculpture with a relief on the subject Chilonis imploring mercy for her husband Cleombrotus He then produced sculptures for the Arc de Triomphe between 1833 and 1836 and produced a design for a sculpture on top of it in 1833 (though this was never realized).

He died in Paris.

Works

Arc de triomphe The Battle of Aboukir, bas-relief, stone, east façade (champs-Élysées side), above The Apotheosis of Napoleon I and The Triumph of 1810 by Jean-Pierre Cortot Entablature frieze, west façade (avenue de la Grande-Armée side), right half Entablature frieze, south façade (avenue Kléber side), left half Design for sculpture on top of the Arc de triomphe - allegory of France victorious (1833), drawing, Paris, musée d'Orsay

Other Molière standing in meditation, over-life-size, bronze, Paris, Musée du Louvre Molière, bronze, Paris, 1844, fontaine Molière, junction of rue de Richelieu and la rue Molière Jean de La Fontaine, statue, marble, Paris, palais de l'Institut Modesty, statue, Paris, cimetière du Père-Lachaise, tomb of Pierre Cartellier, left side Portrait of Nicolas Béhuchet, admiral of France, died 1340 (vers 1838), bust, plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon