Marie-Antoinette Demagnez

Marie-Antoinette Demagnez
A gilt bronze bust of a woman by Demagnez
(cast by J. Malesset, fondeur, Paris, c. 1898)
Born1869
Paris, France
Died1925 (aged 55-56)
Paris, France
EducationÉcole des Beaux-Arts
(studied under
Antonin Mercié)
Known forSculpture
Notable workSource d'amour
Saint-Chaptes War Memorial
MovementArt Nouveau

Marie-Antoinette Demagnez (1869–1925) was a French sculptor who worked during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Demagnez was a frequent exhibitor at the annual Salon art exhibition in Paris, and was one of only a few women whose works were juried into the show at that time in history.

She is best known for her stone statue called Source d’amour and her monumental war memorial statue at Saint-Chaptes that memorializes soldiers killed in both the First and Second World War.

Demagnez died in Paris in 1925.

Early life and education

Mélancolie, a stone sculpture by Demagnez, c. 1895

Demagnez was born in Paris, France, in 1869.[1] During a time in history when very few women ventured into the male-dominated world of bronze sculpture, Demagnez’s work was deemed to be of such good quality that she broke the barrier and was allowed to exhibit her work in what was at the time arguably the world’s most important art show—the annual Salon exhibition.[2] She studied sculpture under the direction of Antonin Mercié at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[1][3]

Career

Although perhaps best known for her World War I Memorial at Saint-Chaptes, she also produced a number of bust sculptures featuring prominent French citizens. Among these is a bronze bust of Léopold Bellan, cast by the A. A. Hébrard foundry, that she completed in 1911.[4] Her circa 1895 stone sculpture entitled Mélancolie was described in 1902 by an art critic who said, "The work has delicate and thoroughly feminine sentiment, and is distinctly praiseworthy, albeit the execution shows marks of indecision and inexperience".[5]

Demagnez won a bronze medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle and also participated in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (informally known as the St. Louis World’s Fair) where she presented a stone statue called Poetry.[6]

Demagnez completed an important World War I memorial in 1919 that is now located in Languedoc-Roussillon, Gard, Saint-Chaptes, France, in the Town Hall Square. It is made of stone, concrete and iron. It depicts a woman draped and crowned with laurel raising a palm with a soldier standing guard nearby.[7]

Engraved on the bas-relief are the names of those soldiers from Saint-Chaptes that gave their lives for France in the First World War. The concrete portion was edited by Coignet of Paris. A plaque indicating the dead from this town in the Second World War was added sometime after that war ended in 1945.[7]

Death

Demagnez died in Paris in 1925.[7]

List of Works

Image Title Year Type Material Notes Location
Bust of M. Wagner[8] 1892 Bust Plaster Salon du 1892, Palais de l'Industrie[8]
Monsieur le comte H. de la R.[9] 1893 Bust Marble Salon du 1893, Palais de l'Industrie[9]
Monsieur le comte J. de la B.[10] 1895 Bust Bronze Salon du 1895, Palais de l'Industrie[10]
Poetry
Poesie
 Poesie[11] 1897 Statue Stone Receives an honorable mention at the Salon du 1907.[12]

Wins a bronze medal[13] at l'Exposition décennale des beaux arts during the 1900 Exposition Universelle Paris.[14]

 Salon du 1897, Galerie des machines.[11]

1899-1900 l'Exposition décennale des beaux arts, Grand Palais[14]

1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, USA[13]

Étude de Tète[15] 1898 Salon du 1898, Galerie des machines[15]
Fortune and the child
La fortune et le jeune enfant
 La fortune et le jeune enfant[16] 1901 Salon du 1901, Grand Palais[16]
La Source D'Amour
 La Source d'amour[17] 1902 Deep relief Art critic Yvanhoe Rambosson describes the piece as a charming sculpture group containing a young nymph putting her hands up to the spring and drinking from it.[18] Salon du 1902, Grand Palais[17]

Salon du 1903, Grand Palais[19]

L'Aveu[19] 1903 Salon du 1903, Grand Palais[19]
Le Pardon[20] 1905 Sculpture group Stone Salon du 1905, Grand Palais[20]
Souvenir[21] 1906 Bust Plaster Salon du 1906, Grand Palais[21]
Jeunesse[22] 1907 Garden planter Bronze Salon du 1907, Grand Palais[22]
Portrait of M. Bellan[22] 1907 Bas-relief Bronze Salon du 1907, Grand Palais[22]

Salon du 1912, Grand Palais[23]

Harmonie[24] 1908 Salon du 1908, Grand Palais[24]
Portrait of M. Cheramy 1910 Bust Bronze Salon du 1910, Grand Palais[25]
Le Souvenir 1914 Statue Plaster Figure forming part of a monument Salon du 1914, Grand Palais[26]
La Marne 1921 Sculpture group Plaster references the 1914 sculpture Le Souvenir Salon du 1921, Grand Palais[27]
Portrait de Madame la Duchesse de La R. 1922 Bust Plaster Salon du 1922, Grand Palais[28]
Pomone, reine des Vergers[29] 1923 Decorative statue Stone Salon du 1923, Grand Palais[29]

Signature example

A circa 1898 signature example for M. A. Demagnez
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References

  1. 1 2 "Buste En Terre Cuite Par M. A. Demagnez". ProAntic.com. Archived from the original on 28 April 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Levey, Michael. (1993) Painting and Sculpture in France 1700-1789. New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 3. ISBN 0300064942
  3. ↑ "Julian Academy". sites.Google.com. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Base Palissy: Buste : de Léopold Bellan, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  5. ↑ "The Studio, Volume Twenty-Five, an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art". books.Google.com. 1902. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Official Catalogue of Exhibits, Department of Art, Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904". books.Google.com. 1904. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 "Saint-Chaptes". Panoramio.com. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  8. 1 2 Baschet, Ludovic (1892). Catalogue illustré du Salon de 1892. Getty Research Institute. Paris : L. Baschet. p. 41.
  9. 1 2 Baschet, Ludovic (1893). Catalogue illustré du Salon de 1893. Getty Research Institute. Paris : L. Baschet. p. 42.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  10. 1 2 Société des artistes français. Salon; Société des artistes français (1895). Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans. Getty Research Institute. Paris. p. 262.
  11. 1 2 Société des artistes français. Salon; Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France); Salon (Exhibition : Paris, France); Société nationale des beaux-arts (France) (1897). Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans. Getty Research Institute. Paris. p. 274.
  12. ↑ Salon de. 1897 English Edition. Goupil & Co : Paris New York. 1897. p. 97.
  13. 1 2 Skiff, Frederick J. V. (1904). Official catalogue of exhibitors. Universal exposition, St. Louis, U.S.A. 1904. Getty Research Institute. St. Louis, For the Committee on press and publicity, by the Official catalogue company (inc.). p. 160.
  14. 1 2 Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France) (1900). Catalogue officiel illustré de l'Exposition décennale des beaux arts de 1889 à 1900. Getty Research Institute. Paris : Impr. Lemercier.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. 1 2 Société des artistes français. Salon (1898). Catalogue illustré du Salon de 1898. Getty Research Institute. Paris : L. Baschet. p. 57.
  16. 1 2 Baschet, Ludovic (1901). Catalogue illustré du Salon de 1901. Getty Research Institute. Paris : L. Baschet. p. 55.
  17. 1 2 Baschet, L. (1902). Catalogue illustré du Salon de 1902. Getty Research Institute. Paris : L. Baschet. p. 67.
  18. ↑ L'Art de coratif ; revue internationale d'art industriel et de de coration v.8. Paris: Administration et Redaction 95 rue des petits-champs, Paris. July 1902. pp. 161, 164.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  19. 1 2 3 Baschet, L. (1903). Catalogue illustré du Salon de 1903. Getty Research Institute. Paris : L. Baschet. p. 57.
  20. 1 2 Hérissey; Société du Salon d'automne; Grand Palais (Paris, France) (1905). Catalogue de peinture, dessin, sculpture, gravure, architecture et arts décoratifs : exposés au Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées ... Getty Research Institute. Evreux : Ch. Hérissey. p. 64.
  21. 1 2 Baschet, Ludovic (1906). Catalogue illustré du Salon de 1906. Getty Research Institute. Paris : L. Baschet. p. 55.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  22. 1 2 3 4 Société des artistes français. Salon; Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France); Salon (Exhibition : Paris, France); Société nationale des beaux-arts (France) (1907). Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans. Getty Research Institute. Paris. p. 252.
  23. ↑ Baschet, L. (1912). "Catalogue illustré du Salon de 1912". Catalogue illustré: 52. ISSN 0249-5961.
  24. 1 2 Baschet, L. (1908). Catalogue illustré du Salon de 1908. Getty Research Institute. Paris : L. Baschet. p. 57.
  25. ↑ Paris (France); Baschet, Ludovic; Dumas, F. G.; Société des artistes français (1910). "Catalogue illustré Salon du 1910": 51 – via HathiTrust. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  26. ↑ Baschet (1914). Catalogue illustré du Salon de 1914 (in French). Paris : L. Baschet. p. 56.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  27. ↑ Baschet (1921). Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture, art decoratif et arts appliques exposes au Grand palais (avenue d'Antin) 1921. Paris: Paris : L. Baschet. p. 220.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  28. ↑ texte, Auteur du texte / Autrice du; texte, Société nationale des beaux-arts (France) Salon Auteur du texte / Autrice du (1922-04-13). "Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture et gravure exposés au ..." Gallica. Retrieved 2026-07-24.
  29. 1 2 Société nationale des beaux-arts (France) (1923). Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture, art decoratif et arts appliques exposes au Grand palais (avenue d'Antin). Evreux: C. Herisssey.
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