Jean Antoine Injalbert

Jean-Antoine Injalbert (; BÃÂ©ziers, 3 February 1845 Ã¢ÂÂ Paris, 20 January 1933) was a French sculptor.

Life

The son of a stonemason, Injalbert was a pupil of Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1874. At the Exposition Universelle of 1889 he won the Grand Prix, and in 1900 was a member of the jury. On the day of the inauguration of the Pont Mirabeau in Paris, Injalbert was made an officer of the LÃÂ©gion d'honneur. In 1905, he was made a member of the Institut de France, and in 1910 promoted to Commander of the LÃÂ©gion d'honneur.

His work shows powerful imagination and strong personality, as well as great knowledge. From about 1915, he became influential as a teacher, at the AcadÃÂ©mie Colarossi and as chief instructor at the ÃÂcole des Beaux Arts. Among his many students were Prague sculptor FrantiÃÂ¡ek BÃÂlek, Alfred Janniot, Fernand Guignier, Gleb W. Derujinsky and the American sculptor Edward McCartan, and Aaron Goodelman.

four allegorical figures on the Pont Mirabeau, Paris: The City of Paris, Navigation, Commerce and Abundance, 1896
monument to MoliÃÂ¨re at PÃÂ©zenas, 1897
Crucifixion, at the Cathedral of Rheims, 1898
Bordeaux and Toulouse, allegorical statues for the Gare de Tours, 1898, for architect Victor Laloux
tympanum depicting the city of Paris surrounded by muses, Petit Palais Paris, circa 1900
allegorical figures of the Loire and the Cher rivers, for the HÃÂ´tel de Ville, Tours, for Laloux, c. 1900
figures of Electricity and Commerce on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Paris, 1905
Monument to the Dead, BÃÂ©ziers, 1925
Hippomenes at the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
Eve After the Fall, in Montpellier
monument to Sadi-Carnot in SÃÂ¨te
Love Conquering the Lion, Fame, The Laughing Child and several others, in BÃÂ©ziers
figure of HonorÃÂ© Mirabeau at the PanthÃÂ©on (Paris)
bust of Louis Gallet, in Valence, DrÃÂ´me