Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse 1824-1887 | French sculptor

Carrier-Belleuse trained as a goldsmith before entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1840 under the sponsorship of Pierre-Jean David d’Angers. He only stayed there for a short time before switching to the Petite Ecole to study decorative arts. Carrier-Belleuse worked in London from 1850-1855, designing ceramics and metalwork models for companies. Beginning in 1857, he exhibited large sculptures at the Salon and received medals and important commissions. From 1851-1870, Emperor Napoleon III hired him to work on the rebuilding of Paris. Carrier-Belleuse’s work incorporated a variety of styles and influences including Naturalism, Realism, neo-Baroque, and Rococo. He employed many pupils such as Auguste Rodin 1840-1917 in his large workshop that produced series, editions, and variations of his sculptures. He was also the father and teacher of Pierre Carrier-Belleuse 1851-1933.

Émile Friant 1863-1932 | French naturalist painter

Friant carries out primarily portraits and scene paintings of the everyday life. Its fabrics draw their instantaneous character in the photographic process. After the success of the World Fair of 1889, which crowns it of a gold medal for All Saints’ day, Émile Friant receives many orders of portrait paintings of personalities nancéiennes and American. 1914: Drawing of Émile Friant: Marie Marvingt with George Gille Nancy army medical officer and a casualty, Ordering body. Its contribution with art decorative is more restricted than those of the painters Camille Martin or Victor Prouvé. It gives Louis Majorelle, in collaboration with Camille Martin, a decoration of furniture on the topic of Gift Quichotte and makes carry out at René Wiener a binding illustrating the guillotine and the executors of the criminal decrees during the Revolution. Émile Friant is member of the management Committee of the School of Nancy since 1901. Émile Friant teaches at the National School of the Art schools in 1906.