EMANUEL FREMIET (1824-1910) Joan of Arc and Louis d’Orleans

Note: Emmanuel Frémiet was a Parisian born sculptor who specialised in animal sculpture. He first exhibited in the Paris Salon at the age of nineteen with a sculpture of an Algerian gazelle. In 1853 Frémiet exhibited bronze sculptures of Emperor Napoleon III’s basset hounds at the Paris Salon. He produced his equestrian statue of Napoleon I in 1868 and of Louis d’Orleans in 1869 (at the Château de Pierrefonds). In 1874 the first equestrian statue of Joan of Arc erected in the Place des Pyramides, Paris and in 1889 a slightly altered version was erected in Nancy. He became a member of the Académie Française in 1892 and an honorary member of the Royal Academy in 1904.