Statues - Hither & Thither

Site Search:

Lyon
Rhône
Rhône-Alpes

Place des Terreaux 20 (1e)
(Jardin du Palais Saint-Pierre)

Gilliatt et la pieuvre

Gilliatt and the Octopus

Main character from Victor Hugo, Les travailleurs de la mer (Toilers of the sea) (1866)
(Wikipedia)

Joseph Carlier
1890

Description

The marble sculpture shows Gilliatt fighting with an octopus.

Jardin du Palais Saint-Pierre

The garden of the Palais Saint-Pierre is a municipal garden located within the the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon. It is a rectangular garden delimited by the arcades of the old cloister of the Benedictine abbey. It is located right in the city center on the peninsula. Like the Museum, the garden is open every day, except Tuesdays and holidays.

In the garden a number of sculptures of the museum is placed:

Bronze sculptures

Démocrite méditant sur le siège de l'âme / Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul by Léon-Alexandre Delhomme
L'Ombre ou Adam / The Shade or Adam by Auguste Rodin
Le joueur de flûte / The Flute Player by Jean-André Delorme
Giotto enfant dessinant une tête de bélier / Giotto as a Child, Drawing a ram's head by Jean-François Legendre-Héral
Jeune athlète / Young athlete by Jean-Baptiste Larrivé
Carpeaux au travail / Carpeaux at work by Antoine Bourdelle
L'Âge d'airain / The Bronze Age or Adam by Auguste Rodin
Chactas sur la tombe d'Atala / Chactas Meditating on Atala's Tomb by Francisque Duret
Faune ivre / Drunken faun by Léon Cugnot

Marble sculptures

Castalie ou Source de la poésie / Castalia or The Source of Poetry by Eugène Guillaume
Agar et Ismaël / Hagar and Ishmael by François Sicard
Gilliatt et la pieuvre / Gilliatt and the Octopus by Émile Joseph Carlier

At the walls:

Copies des statues antiques / Castings from antique sculptures
Portraits des plus célèbres artistes lyonnais / Portraits of the most famous artists of Lyon
Moulages de la frise des Panathénées et de celle du monument des Néréides / Castings of the Panathenaic frieze and that of the Nereids monument [not photographed by us]

Sculptor

Joseph Carlier (Cambrai 1849 - Paris 1927), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Jardin du palais Saint-Pierre.
Google Arts and Culture, The Garden of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.
Daniel F. Valot, Jeux et Photos de Lyon, Palais Saint Pierre.

Locatie (N 45°46'0" - E 4°49'59") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frra117; Photograph: 12 August 2018
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
If you want to use photos, please contact us via the contact form (in Dutch, English or German).
© Website and photos: René & Peter van der Krogt

Your banner here? Click for information.