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Aime Jules Dalou on artnet |
 | | He studied under Carpeaux and Duret, combining the richness and vivacity of the former with the academic purity and scholarship of the latter, and became one of the most versatile and outstanding French sculptors of the 19th century. |
| | Dalou was vehemently opposed to the monumental classicism which dominated sculpture under the Second Empire and along with other artists of a kindred feeling, boycotted the official Salon from 1861 onwards, exhibiting instead at the so-called Salon des Refuses. |
| | Following his return to Paris Dalou secured many public commissions, the greatest of which was his Triumph of the Republic, on which he worked for twenty years. |
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