Eugène-Louis Lequesne

Eugène-Louis Lequesne (; or Le Quesne; 15 February 1815 – 3 June 1887) was a French sculptor. Lequesne was born and died in Paris. In 1841, he entered the École nationale des beaux-arts, in James Pradier's workshop. In 1843, he won the second Prix de Rome, and in 1844 the first prize, with a plaster bas-relief entitled Pyrrhus tuant Priam (Pyrrhus killing Priam). He lived at the Académie de France à Rome from 1844 to 1849, alongside Jean-Louis Charles Garnier. In 1855, he was awarded the Great Prize for sculpture at the Exposition Universelle, and received the Légion d'honneur.

Main works figures representing Rouen and Amiens, on the façade of the Gare du Nord, Paris, circa 1862 colossal finial figure of La Bonne Mère (The Good Mother), Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille, 1867 plaster figure of Camulogene, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 1872 two Pegasus figures, Palais Garnier, Paris Faune Dansant (Dancing Faun), Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris La Foi, La Charité et L'Espérance (Faith, Charity and Hope), Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris two medallions on the façade of the Musée de Picardie in Amiens: Thuillier Constant and Du Cange two caryatids on the façade of the Musée de Picardie in Amiens: L'Industrie and La Sculpture Masque d’Homère (Mask of Homer), Museum of Beaufort Faune Dansant (Dancing Faun), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux Prêtresse de Bacchus (Priestess of Bacchus), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Cambrai À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles (What young girls dream of) and Vercingétorix vaincu défiant les soldats romains (Defeated Vercingetorix defying Roman soldiers), Museum of Chartres Le buste de Laënnec (Bust of Laënnec), Faculté de médecine de Paris Thuillier, Museum of Roanne Le Maréchal de Saint-Arnaud (Marshal Saint-Arnaud), Palace of Versailles Renommée retenant Pégase (Renown holding back Pegasus), Musée d'Orsay, Paris