Charles Degeorge

Summary

Charles Jean Marie Degeorge (1837 Lyon – 1888 Paris)[1] was a French sculptor, and medallist, whose best-known work, La jeunesse d'Aristote (The Youth of Aristotle) (1875) depicts the philosopher as a semi-nude teenage boy sitting in a large chair, looking bored as he studies a scroll. The statue is currently in the Musée d'Orsay.

Charles Degeorge's statue La jeunesse d'Aristote
Popular is his pigeon post medal of the Siege of Paris 1870-1871, issued by the French Ministère de la Guerre.

Degeorge also sculpted a bust of Henri Regnault which was incorporated into Regnault's monument at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris.

External links edit

  • Courtauld Institute: Monument to Henri Regnault
  • Charles Degeorge in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website  

References edit

  1. ^ "Charles Degeorge" (in French). Musée d' Orsay. Retrieved 10 August 2017.