French sculptor. He won the Prix de Rome in 1869 for sculpture, and became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1905. He was also an officer of the Légion d’Honneur.
Among his important works are Child from Abruzzo and The Death of Alcestis.
Pierre Guillaume Fr�d�ric Le Play (1806-1882) was a French engineer, sociologist and economist. As a sociologist he developed techniques for systematic research on the family.
The subject is the conjugal virtue of the heroine of the tragic drama Alcestis by the fifth-century B.C. Greek poet Euripides. When her husband angered the gods, Alcestis volunteered to give her life so that his might be spared.
This marble group was inspired by the death of the artist’s wife.
This marble is a reduced-size version of Allar’s life-size model exhibited at the 1881 Paris Salon des artistes fran�ais. It received the prestigious m�daille d’honneur and was acquired by the French state for the Mus�e du Luxembourg. The marble portrays a scene from one of the great Greek tragedies, Alcestis by Euripides, written in 438 B.C.E. Allar here presents the moment that Alcestis passes from this world into the next.
This marble is a reduced-size version of Allar’s life-size model exhibited at the 1881 Paris Salon des artistes fran�ais. It received the prestigious m�daille d’honneur and was acquired by the French state for the Mus�e du Luxembourg. The marble portrays a scene from one of the great Greek tragedies, Alcestis by Euripides, written in 438 B.C.E. Allar here presents the moment that Alcestis passes from this world into the next.
