Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
1824-1887 French Sculptor
Carrier-Belleuse was a student of David d'Angers and briefly at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. His career is distinguished by his versatility and his work outside
France: in England between 1850 and 1855 (working for Mintons), and in Brussels around 1871. His name is perhaps best known because Auguste Rodin worked as
his assistant between 1864 and 1870. The two travelled to Brussels in 1871, and by some accounts Rodin assisted Carrier-Belleuse's architectural sculpture for
the Brussels Stock Exchange.
Carrier-Belleuse made many terra cotta pieces, the most famous of which may be The Abduction of Hippodameia depicting the Greek mythological scene of a centaur
kidnapping Hippodameia on her wedding day. He was also made artistic director at the Manufacture nationale de Sevres in 1876.
As a painter he produced many portraits and landscapes on the Cote d'Opale, northern sea-borders facing England, chiefly in the village of Audresselles.
In 1862 Carrier-Belleuse was one of the founding members of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and was made an Officier of the Legion d'honneur.
He was also the father and teacher of Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse.
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