Overview of the exhibition
Beginning in the 1880s, Léopold Mercier had a profitable business in Paris and Cabourg as a photographer and editor. He regularly published small advertising leaflets in which the long list of the works of painters and sculptors appearing in the studio catalogue was presented in alphabetical order. Léopold Mercier also worked in artists' studios, and covered the major art exhibitions & cultural events. Léopold Mercier works here as a portraitist, sometimes redesining directly on the glass plates, to reveal the sensuality and timeless beauty of these bodies made of stone.
Gladiateur mourant par Julien ? Louvre.
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Vénus accroupie.
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Delaplanche. "Circé". Paris, musée du Luxembourg.
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Clodion (1738-1814). "Satyre et Bacchante". Paris, musée du Louvre.
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Paul Eugéne Victor Bacquet (1848-1901). "La Source".
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Diane ; Lambard. Diana.
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Amour et papillon ; Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763-1810). Cherub and butterfly. Paris, Louvre Museum.
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Pradier. Toilette d'Atalante. Louvre.
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Hector Lemaire (1846-1933). "La roche qui pleure".
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Venus de Milo (or Aphrodite of Milos). Greek sculpture, 130 and 100 BC. Paris, Louvre Museum.
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Auguste Maillard. "La chute d'Icare".
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CEPHALE ET PROCRIS ; Ernest Damé (1845-1922). "Céphale et Procris", hero of the Greek mythology. Musée de Laon.
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Antinous, buste (Antique Romain), Louvre.
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Perraud. Le désespoir. Louvre.
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Henri Coutheillas (1862-1929). "Le chêne et le roseau".
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Le Réveil ; Saulo. Awakening.
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F. Delaistre. Psyché et l'Amour. 1785, Louvre.
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La Baigneuse ; Vauthier. The bather.
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Pezieux. "une femme", 1894. Photographie de Léopold Mercier. Paris, musée du Trocadero.
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Vénus accroupie, Louvre.
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Huguenin. The nap.
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Felix Charpentier (1858-1924). "La chanson".
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La Cigale ; Laurent-Honoré Marqueste (1848-1920). La Cigale.
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Jeune Apollon, Salon 1900.
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Honoré Icard (1845-1917). "L'Araignée". Quimper.
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Félix Charpentier (1858-1924). "L'Etoile Filante".
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Milon de Crotone par Puget, Louvre.
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Alphonse Guilloux (1852-1939). "Orphée expirant". Rouen.
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La Boîte de Pandore ; Robinet. Pandora's box.
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G.Guitton. "Le Passant et la Colombe". Paris, musée du Luxembourg.
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Vénus accroupie, Louvre.
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Robinet. La Source.
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Le Raisin ; Maurice Bouval (1863-1916). Grape. Plaster model.
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Tireur d'épines, musée du Louvre.
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Karl Peter Hasselberg (1850-1894). "Le Perce-neige", école suédoise. Paris, musée du Luxembourg.
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Bouchet, sculture "le But", Musée de Troyes.
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Alfred Boucher (1850-1934), sculpteur français. "Le Repos". Paris, musée du Luxembourg.
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Poésie Française par Barreau.
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Imploration.
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Nymphe de Salmacis par Bosio. Louvre.
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Jeune fille au bain ; Mrs Léon Bertaux (born Hélène Hébert, 1825-1909). Young girl having a bath. Paris, Musée du Luxembourg.
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Felix Charpentier (1858-1924). "L'improvisateur". Paris, musée du Luxembourg.
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Romans. Nissus et Euryale. Louvre.
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Sculpture ; Thomas. Sculpture. 1903 art salon.
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Coutheilas. "La mort de la cigale". Marbre. Photographie de Léopold Mercier.
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Alexandre Charpentier (1856-1909). "Femme". Paris, musée du Luxembourg.
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Becquet. Statue de St Sebastien.
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La Crépuscule par Boisseau, Luxembourg.
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Charles René de Saint-Marceaux (1845-1915), sculpteur français. "Génie gardant le secret de la tombe". Paris, musée du Luxembourg.
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Psyché. Luxembourg.
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Tournois. "Persée", bronze.
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Jeanne Itasse-Broquet. "Bacchante".
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Léon Grandin. "La mort de Hyacinthe", marbre. Photographie de Léopold Mercier.
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Sculpture. Femme au paon (trois pellicules identiques).
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Michelangelo (1475-1564). "Calmed down slave". Marble, 1513-1514. Paris, Louvre museum.
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Arion monté sur le dauphin par Hiolle. Luxembourg.
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Rodin. Danaide.
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La Danse ; Eugène Delaplanche (1836-1891). The Dance. Marble.
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Le Baiser ; Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). The Kiss. Paris, Luxembourg Garden.
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Victoire de Samothrace. Louvre.
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