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(2) Louis-Ernest Barrias
(b Paris, 13 April 1841; d Paris, 4 Feb 1905). Sculptor, brother of (1) Félix Barrias. He began his artistic training as a painter under Léon Cogniet but moved on to study sculpture under P.-J. Cavelier. He enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1858, where he was a pupil of François Jouffroy, and he won the Prix de Rome in 1864. In the meantime he had been involved in the sculptural decoration of the Paris Opéra and had executed a marble statue of Virgil (1865; in situ) on the staircase of the Hôtel de la Païva in the Champs Elysées.
Part of the Barrias family
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