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Genève (Canton)

Parc des Bastions

Edmond Boissier

Genève 1810 - Valeyres-sous-Rances 1885
Swiss botanist, explorer and mathematician
(Wikipedia)

Hugues Bovy
Thiébaut (Paris)
1887

Description

Bronze bust.

Inscription(s)

EDMOND BOISSIER
1810-1885

Signed: hugues bovy 1886
thiébaut frères fondeurs

Annotation

Installed 3 June 1887, donated by Mme. Agénor de Gasparin.

Sculptor

Hugues Bovy (Genève 1841 - Hernance 1903), Swiss sculptor (SIKART Lexikon).

Sources & Information

Journal de Genève, 2 November 1928 (through Archives Historiques Le Temps).

Locatie (N 46°12'0" - E 6°8'42") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: chge010; Photograph: 5 June 2013
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