Jules Clément Chaplain
Jules Clément Chaplain
19th century Beaux-Arts sculptor and medalist
(Mortagne, 1839 - 1909)
Born at Montagne, Chaplain entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1857 and studied with the sculptor Francois Jouffroy and the medalist Andre Oudine. He won the Rome Prize in 1863, and was in Italy from 1864-68. Returning to Paris, he exhibited extensively, and was a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts from 1881. Chaplain worked as a sculptor, but he is best known for his medals. Inspired by the Italian Renaissance as well as contemporary sculptors, he made both cast and struck medals.
See Forrer i, pp. 398-407; 7, p. 175; Thieme-Becker 6, pp. 372-73.
--- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976
8 objects
1900
bronze
Bequest of Ben Foster
1935.10
1891
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.137.47.a
1884
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.137.174.a
1899
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.138.32.a
1891
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.137.47.b
1884
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.137.174.b
1899
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.138.32.b
1867
bronze medal
Gift of Christopher Monkhouse in honor of Amber Orosco ’19, Stephen Pastoriza ’19, and Benjamin Wu ’18, curators of the 2018-2019 exhibition, A Handheld History: Five Centuries of Medals from the Molinari Collection at Bowdoin College
2018.45.1.a-.b
