Ernest Christophe
French sculptor (1827-1892) · France · On the map · Artists · Died at 64
Ernest Louis Aquilas Christophe was a French sculptor, a student of François Rude and a friend of Charles Baudelaire. Rude assigned him to help with the bronze recumbent effigy to Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, a French politician. The funerary monument is signed Rude et Christophe, son jeune élève.
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His Le Masque sculpture won Christophe third place in the Paris Salon in 1876 and two of his sculptures, La Fatalité (Fatality) and Le Baiser suprême were acquired by the Musée du Luxembourg.
