Léon Fagel (1851–1913) was a French sculptor, best known for his busts.
Fagel was born in Valenciennes, won the second Prix de Rome in 1875, and the Prix de Rome in 1879. He exhibited busts of Chevreul, J. Cavelier, and Le Greffeur at the Exposition Universelle (1900), along with two large reliefs for Sacré-Cœur (Faith and Fortitude).
Selected works
Paris
La Loi et La Justice, Cour des Comptes
La Vierge des Marins, Sacré-Cœur
Lettres, Sorbonne
Michel Eugène Chevreul, Jardin des Plantes
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jardin des Plantes
Sculpture, Place du Carrousel
Silvestre, Comédie-Française
Elsewhere
Art, École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers Centre de Lille, Lille
Catherine Joséphine de Raffin, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes
Charles-François Daubigny, Auvers
Joseph-François Dupleix, Landrecies
Monument to the Battle of Wattignies (1793), Maubeuge
References
Daniel Cady Eaton, A Handbook of Modern French Sculpture, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913, page 265.
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1851 births
1913 deaths
Prix de Rome for sculpture
Artists from Valenciennes
20th-century French sculptors
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
Officers of the Legion of Honour
19th-century French male artists
