Victor Ségoffin
bust of the Cuban-French poet José-Maria de Heredia, bronze, Luxembourg Garden
Victor Joseph Jean Ambroise Segoffin (1867–1925) was a French sculptor.
Born in Toulouse, educated at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Louis-Ernest Barrias and Pierre-Jules Cavelier, Segoffin won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1897. He became an instructor at the Ecole, became an officier of the Légion d'honneur in 1922, and a street in Toulouse is named for him.
His works include:
- The war dance, marble, Musée d'Orsay, 1903–1905
- Sacred Mask Dance, bronze, Musée d'Orsay, 1905
- marble monument of Voltaire, meant for the Pantheon, now in the courtyard of the Lycee de Voltaire, 1907–1921
- bronze Genius Vanquishing Time at the Cour Napoleon at the Louvre Palace, 1908, melted down during the German occupation
- bust of the Cuban-French poet José-Maria de Heredia, bronze, Jardin du Luxembourg
- Therese Combarieu, marble, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
- Denise Combarieu, bronze, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
- Emile Cartailhac, bronze, Muséum of Toulouse 1914
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