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François-Jules Pictet de La Rive

Genève 1809 - Genève 1872
Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist
(Wikipedia)

Hugues Bovy & Louis Dorcière
Thiébaut (Paris)
1899

Genève / François-Jules Pictet de La Rive

Description

Bronze bust on a pedestal with small bronze reliefs with lizards, snakes, turtles, frogs etc.

Inscription(s)

François-Jules
PICTET de la RIVE
professeur
a l'Academie de
Geneve
1809-1879

ce monument
a été élevé à la mémoire de
François-Jules PICTET de la RIVE
par
ses anciens amis et élèves
1899

Signed: hugues bovy
thiébault [!] frères. Fondeurs paris

Annotation

Inaugurated 5 June 1899. The bust is made by Bovy after Dorcière.

Sculptors

Hugues Bovy (Genève 1841 - Hernance 1903), Swiss sculptor (SIKART Lexikon).
Louis Dorcière (Genève 1805 - Genève 1879), Swiss sculptor (SIKART Lexikon).

Sources & Information

Journal de Genève, 6 and 7 June 1899 (through Archives Historiques Le Temps).
Journal de Genève, 2 November 1928 (through Archives Historiques Le Temps).

Location (N 46°11'59" - E 6°8'40")

Item Code: chge011; Photograph: 5 June 2013
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