Museum of Decorative Arts

museum, Paris, France

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Carrier-Belleuse

  • Portrait of the Actress Aimée-Olympe Desclée, terra-cotta sculpture by Albert Carrier-Belleuse, c. 1874; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 69.21 × 37.46 × 13.02 cm.
    In Albert Carrier-Belleuse

    …of what later became the Museum of Decorative Arts, an institution that elevated the status of the applied arts in France. For his role in this he was made an officer of the Legion of Honour in 1855 and further elevated in 1867. His celebrated pupil, Auguste Rodin, assisted him…

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