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Mercié, (Marius-Jean-)Antonin [Antoine]
(b Toulouse, 30 Oct 1845; d Paris, 13 Dec 1916). French sculptor and painter. Principally a sculptor, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under François Jouffroy and Alexandre Falguière. In 1868 he won the Prix de Rome with the marble statue Theseus, Vanquisher of the Minotaur (Paris, Ecole N. Sup. B.-A.) and completed his studies at the Académie de France in Rome. There he was awarded a first-class medal and the cross of the Légion d’honneur for his elegant neo-Florentine bronze statue David Victorious (Paris, Mus. d’Orsay). Further success came with the bronze group Gloria victis (exh. Salon 1874; Paris, Petit Pal.), composed of a young warrior borne heavenwards by a flying figure, combining the formal elegance of Renaissance sculpture with a powerful Baroque composition. Replicas of it were used on monuments to the dead of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 in many French towns, including Niort, Deux-Sèvres (1881), Agen, Lot-et-Garonne (1883) and Bordeaux (1884).
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- Mercié, (Marius-Jean-)Antonin
- France, §IV, 5(i): Sculpture, c 1814–c 1900: Influence of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
- France, §IV, 5(iii): Sculpture, c 1814–c 1900: Romanticism, academicism & `national’ sculpture
- Gérôme, Jean-Léon, §2: Sculpture
- pupils
- Brancusi, Constantin
- Frampton, George (James)
- Laszczka, Konstanty
- MacMonnies, Frederick William
- Morlon, Pierre-Alexandre
- Nikoladze, Yakov
- Nikolov, Andrey
- Pomeroy, Frederick William
- Sandoz, Edouard-Marcel
- Simões de Almeida, José
- teachers
- works
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