Aime Millet ( fr. Aimé Millet ; September 28, 1819 , Paris - January 14, 1891 , ibid.) - French painter, sculptor , engraver and medalist ( medal cutter); student of David of Angers [1] .
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| Date of Birth | September 28, 1819 |
| Place of Birth | Paris , France |
| Date of death | January 14, 1891 (71 years old) |
| A place of death | Paris |
| Citizenship |  France |
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The son of the miniaturist Frederic Millet (1796-1859); uncle of the Chicago architect Louis Millet (1856-1923).
He studied at the National Higher School of Fine Arts with David Angers and Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc .
In 1870 he was appointed professor at the Higher National School of Decorative Arts. Among his students were Louis Majorelle , Berthe Morisot , John Waltz and Francois Pompon .
Emé Millet died in Paris on January 14, 1891 and was buried in the cemetery of Montmartre .
Creativity
- The bronze statue of Chateaubriand (1875; Saint-Malo ; destroyed under the Vichy regime );
- marble statue of " Kassandra " (1877; Tuileries Garden , Paris);
- marble statue " Ariadne " (1890; Rennes Art Museum ).
Notes
- ↑ Millet // Small Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 4 volumes - St. Petersburg. 1907-1909.
Links
- Millet // Small Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 4 volumes - St. Petersburg. 1907-1909.