Léon Fagel

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Léon Fagel (1851-1913) was a French sculptor, best known for his busts.

Fagel was born in Valenciennes, won the second Prix de Rome in 1875, and the Prix de Rome in 1879. He exhibited busts of Chevreul, J. Cavelier, and Le Greffeur at the Exposition Universelle (1900), along with two large reliefs for Sacré-Cœur (Faith and Fortitude).

[edit] Selected works

• Paris
  • La Loi et La Justice, Cour des Comptes
  • La Vierge des Marins, Sacré-Cœur
  • Lettres, Sorbonne
  • Michel Eugène Chevreul, Jardin des Plantes
  • Sculpture, Place du Carrousel
  • Silvestre, Comédie-Française
• Elsewhere
  • Art, École National Supérieure d'Arts et Metiers Centre de Lille, Lille
  • Catherine Joséphine de Raffin, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes
  • Charles-François Daubigny, Auvers
  • Joseph-François Dupleix, Landrecies
  • Monument to the Battle of Wattignies (1793), Maubeuge

[edit] References

• Daniel Cady Eaton, A Handbook of Modern French Sculpture, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913, page 265.