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Basse-Normandie

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Jean-Marie Valhubert

Jean-Marie Mellon Roger dit Valhubert
Avranches 1764 - Brno 1805

(Wikipedia)

Pierre Cartellier
1815/32

Description

Large marble statue - twice life size - of the general.

Inscription(s)

VALHUBERT
né à avranches
le 22 8^bre 1764,
tombé glorieusement
à austerlitz
le 2 X^bre 1805

Signed: p. cartellier / 1815
(text plaque) c. baudet. / à villedieu.

Annotation

The statue was made in 1815 for the the Pont de la Concorde in Paris, and in 1832 transported to Avranches.

Contemparories were sometimes not so positive on this statues, see the comment by Robert Bell in his "Wayside Pictures through France, Belgium, and Germany" in in Bentley's Miscellany (vol. 24, 1848, p. 512; separate publication in 1849, p. 107):

...they have erected a vulgar colossal statue in the square leading to the Bishop's gardens of one General Valhubert, who was killed at Austerlitz, a hero known only under the shadow of these flattering trees; while the celebrated Huet,* to whose memory they have always been promising a statue, has not even an inscription to record his name. The statue of the great unknown Valhubert occupies a more prominent stituation than the statue of Henry IV. at Caen. Such are the uncertainties of fame in places like Avranches ; such the accidents of popular sculpture.

Sculptor

Pierre Cartellier (1757 - 1831), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Liste des œuvres d'art de la Manche.

Locatie (N 48°41'12" - W 1°21'46") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frbn038; Photograph: 26 May 2012
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