Émile Guillemin

Émile Coriolan Hippolyte Guillemin (16 October 1841 – 1907) was a French sculptor of the Belle Époque. He worked in bronze.[2]: 103  He studied under his father, the painter Auguste Guillemin, and under Jean-Jules Salmson.[1] He showed work at the Salon of Paris from 1870 to 1899, and in 1897 received an honourable mention there.[1][2]: 103 

Émile Guillemin
Born
Émile-Coriolan Hippolyte Guillemin

16 October 1841[1]
Paris, France
Died1907
Paris
NationalityParis, France
EducationÉmile Auguste Marie Guillemin, Jean-Jules Salmson
Known forBronze sculpture
Notable work
Le Guerrier arabe à cheval with Alfred Barye
MovementOrientalism
AwardsLouvre Museum, 1897

Some versions of his Cavalier Arabe are signed both by him and by Alfred Barye, suggesting a collaboration.[3]: 370 

Emile Coriolan Hippolyte Guillemin made his debut in the Paris Salon of 1870 where he exhibited a pair of Roman Gladiators, Retaire and Mirmillon, drawn from antiquity. Guillemin specialized in figurative works and was greatly inspired by the Middle East and its exoticism. Representations of Indian falconers, Turkish maidens and Japanese courtesans firmly established Guillemin's reputation as an Orientalist sculptor from the mid-1870's.

Bibliography
  • P. Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe Siecle, Paris, 1987, p. 369

References
  1. Guillemin, Émile Coriolan Hippolyte. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accessed January 2016. (subscription required)
  2. Stéphane Richemond, Denise Grouard (2008). Les orientalistes: dictionnaire des sculpteurs, XIXe-XXe siècles (in French). Paris: Les Éditions de l'Amateur. ISBN 9782859174842.
  3. Pierre Kjellberg; Kate D. Loftus, Alison Levie, Leslie Bockol (translators) (1994). Bronzes of the 19th Century: Dictionary of Sculptors. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 9780887406294.
  • Émile Guillemin in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website


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