Etex

ETEX, ANTOINE (1808-1888), French sculptor, painter and architect, was born in Paris on the 2oth of March 1 808. He first ixhibited in the salon of 1833, his work including a reproduction in marble of his " Death of Hyacinthus," and the plaster cast of his " Cain and his race cursed by God." Thiers, who was at this time minister of public works, now commissioned him to execute the two groups of " Peace " and " War," placed at each side of the Arc de Triomphe. This last, which established his reputation, he reproduc…

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Vol. 9, pp. 806-806