Émile Guillemin
Born
Émile-Coriolan Hippolyte Guillemin

16 October 1841[1]
Paris, France
Died1907
Paris
NationalityParis, France
EducationÉmile Auguste Marie Guillemin, Jean-Jules Salmson
Known forBronze sculpture
Notable workLe Guerrier arabe à cheval with Alfred Barye
MovementOrientalism
AwardsLouvre Museum, 1897

Émile Coriolan Hippolyte Guillemin (16 October 1841 – 1907) was a French sculptor of the Belle Époque. He worked in bronze.[2]: 103  He studied under his father, the painter Auguste Guillemin, and under Jean-Jules Salmson.[1] He showed work at the Salon of Paris from 1870 to 1899, and in 1897 received an honourable mention there.[1][2]: 103  In 2008 his 1884 bronze sculpture Femme Kabyle d'Algerie and Janissaire du Sultan Mahmoud II (Kabyle woman from Algeria and Janissary of Sultan Mahmound II) sold for $1,202,500 plus auction fees in New York to a private collector through Sotheby's Auction House.[3]

Some versions of his Cavalier Arabe are signed both by him and by Alfred Barye, suggesting a collaboration.[4]: 370 

Emile Coriolan Hippolyte Guillemin made his debut in the Paris Salon of 1870 where he exhibited a pair of Roman Gladiators, Retaire and Mirmillon, drawn from antiquity. Guillemin specialized in figurative works and was greatly inspired by the Middle East and its exoticism. Representations of Indian falconers, Turkish maidens and Japanese courtesans firmly established Guillemin's reputation as an Orientalist sculptor from the mid-1870's.

Bibliography

  • P. Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe Siecle, Paris, 1987, p. 369

References

  1. 1 2 3 Guillemin, Émile Coriolan Hippolyte. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accessed January 2016. (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 Stéphane Richemond, Denise Grouard (2008). Les orientalistes: dictionnaire des sculpteurs, XIXe-XXe siècles (in French). Paris: Les Éditions de l'Amateur. ISBN 9782859174842.
  3. ↑ Sotheby's Auctions HouseSotheby's Auctions Émile Guillemin European art of the 9th century, including Islamic and Orientalist art, Émile-Coriolan-Hippolyte Guillemin (Paris, 1841-1907), Femme Kabyle d'Algerie and Jamissaire du Sultan Mahmoud II the female figure signed and dated Guillemin/1884, the male signed Ele Guillemin , bronze, silver, gold and polychrome patina with colored hard stone cabochons, both raised on an Italian marble pedestal Rosso Levanto of masculine height 36-inch (91.5 cm), sold for $1,202,500, Sotheby's, New York, October 21, 2008.
  4. ↑ Pierre Kjellberg; Kate D. Loftus, Alison Levie, Leslie Bockol (translators) (1994). Bronzes of the 19th Century: Dictionary of Sculptors. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 9780887406294.
  • Émile Guillemin in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
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