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Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse ()

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This is the artist's biography published, or to be published, in the NGA Systematic Catalogue

 

Carrier-Belleuse is the name used by this sculptor--born Carrier de Belleuse--on his mature pieces, after initially signing works "A.

Carrier." His career began firmly in the applied arts, with his apprenticeship at thirteen to a Parisian ciseleur today known as Bauchery (or Beauchery), and he did subsequent work for Jacques-Henri Fauconnier and Fannière Frères.

His formal education took place at the Petite Ecole--chosen after an unhappy stint at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in under the direction of David d'Angers, his official master. While at the Petite Ecole in the s, Carrier-Belleuse began his lifelong practice of providing commercial houses with models for edition, as statuettes or as ornament for functional pieces.

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