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Hiolle, Ernest-Eugène
(b Paris, 5 May 1834; d Bois-le-Roi, 5 Oct 1886). French sculptor. He studied at the Ecole Académique in Valenciennes before entering the studio of François Jouffroy at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1862 he won the Prix de Rome. His first Salon exhibit, the statue Orion Sitting on a Dolphin (marble, 1866–70; Paris, Mus. d’Orsay), was executed during his time at the Académie de France in Rome. After several years during which he devoted himself mainly to portrait busts because of a lack of state commissions, he participated in the great public building projects of the Third Republic (after 1870), contributing decorative sculpture to the Paris Opéra and the Hôtel de Ville, among other buildings. Such works as his statues Narcissus (marble, 1869; Valenciennes, Mus. B.-A.) and Eve (marble, 1883; Troyes, Mus. B.-A. & Archéol.) demonstrate the influence of his years in Italy. He was occasionally assisted by his brother Maximilien-Louis Hiolle (1843–1938).
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