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Alphee Dubois
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| Birth | Paris |
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| Death | (at age 74) Clamart |
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| Activities | Medalist , stamp designer |
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| Honors | Rome Prize () Knight of the Legion of Honor () |
Alphée Dubois is a medalist and designer of postage stamps , born onin Paris and died inin 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, stepmother of the perfumer François Coty .
Alphée Dubois was a student of Francisque Duret and Jacques-Jean Barre at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris . He obtained the first Grand Prix de Rome in medal and fine stone engraving in 1855 1 on the theme Warrior dying on the altar of the fatherland . He studied the models of Antiquity and perfected himself in the practice of his art at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1855 to 1860.
After his fruitful stay full of encounters and precious discoveries, he successively executed two medals: Pope Pius IX blessing the Prince Imperial , and The Reception of the Siamese Ambassadors at Fontainebleau , and received numerous official commissions from the Direction des Beaux-arts.
He engraved in 1865 on a sardonix the portraits of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie .
Alphée Dubois exhibited in various Salons 2 and obtained medals in 1868 and 1869, and a silver medal in 1889.
He was named Chevalier 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 World's Fair .
We also owe him numerous sculptures, including the bas-relief L'Industrie et le Commerce adorning the pediment of the Salle des Prévôts in the Hôtel de Ville in Paris , and portraits in medallions of personalities.
At the end of his life, Alphée Dubois lived at no . 9 rue Chef-de-Ville in Clamart 3 , where he is buried in the municipal cemetery, no . 26 rue du Bois-Tardieu. His tomb is adorned 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 4 .
- Alphee Dubois and his entourage
