Description

FRANCE Medal Award

REPVBLIQVE FRANCAISE MINISTER DE L'AGRICAVLTVRE PARIS 1905 

by ALPHEE DUBOIS  In original box. 

Alphée Dubois is a medalist and postage stamp designer born July 17, 1831 in Paris and died September 6, 1905 in Clamart.

Biography

Son of the engraver Joseph Eugène Dubois and Uranie Virginie Béthune, Alphée Dubois married Rose Marie Catherine Novelli in 1860 in Rome. He is the father of Henri Alfred Auguste Dubois (1859-1943) who also became a medalist and sculptor, and of Virginie Dubois, mother-in-law of the perfumer François Coty.

Alphée Dubois was a student of Francisque Duret and Jacques-Jean Barre at the Paris School of Fine Arts. He won the first Grand Prix de Rome in medal and fine stone engraving in 18551 on the theme Warrior Dying on the Altar of the Fatherland. He studied models from Antiquity and perfected his art at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1855 to 1860.

After his fruitful stay full of precious meetings and discoveries, he successively executed two medals: Pope Pius IX blessing the prince imperial, and The Reception of the Siamese ambassadors of Fontainebleau, and received numerous official orders from the Department of Fine Arts.

In 1865 he engraved the portraits of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie on a sardonix.

Alphée Dubois exhibited in various Salons2 and obtained medals in 1868 and 1869, and a silver medal in 1889.

He was named knight of the Legion of Honor in 1883.

In 1900, he was curator of the museum of fine arts and archeology of Besançon.

He was a member of the jury and out of competition at the 1900 Universal Exhibition.

We also owe him numerous sculptures, including the bas-relief Industry and Commerce adorning the pediment of the Salle des Prévôts of the Paris City Hall, and medallion portraits of personalities.

At the end of his life, Alphée Dubois lived at no. 9 rue Chef-de-Ville in Clamart3, where he is buried in the communal cemetery, no. 26 rue du Bois-Tardieu. His tomb is decorated with one of his works, The Shepherds of Arcadia, a plaque after Nicolas Poussin, with the inscription: “Et Ament Meminisse Periti” (“Let those who know, remember”). In the same tomb rests his son-in-law, the engraver Alphonse Lamotte.From Wkikipedia.

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ID 240406   2067 ε5

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