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.
46746-5 DG
Pierre Julien (1731-1804). Dying gladiator. Louvre museum.
45489-8 DG
Crouching Venus.
40702-13 DG
Delaplanche. "Circe". Paris, musée du Luxembourg.
40902-11 DG
Clodion (1738-1814). "Satyr and Maenad". Paris, Louvre museum.
40711-5 DG
Paul Eugène Victor Bacquet (1848-1901). "The Source".
41567-19 DG
Lambard. Diana.
46675-7 DG
Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763-1810). "Cupid with a butterfly". Paris, Louvre Museum.
48533-7 DG
James Pradier (1790-1852). "La Toilette d'Atalante", 1850. Louvre museum.
40733-15 DG
Hector Lemaire (1846-1933). "The crying rock" (or The crying nymph). Fine Arts museum, Angers.
49029-10 DG
Venus de Milo (or Aphrodite of Milos). Greek sculpture, 130 and 100 BC. Paris, Louvre Museum.
40733-20 DG
Auguste Maillard. "The Fall of Icarus".
7396-4 DG
Ernest Damé (1845-1922). "Cephalus and Procris", heroes of the Greek mythology. Musée de Laon.
46746-6 DG
Antinous, bust (Anciant Roman), Louvre.
48533-10 DG
Jean-Joseph Perraud (1819-1876). "Despair". Orsay museum.
40713-5 DG
Henri Coutheillas (1862-1929). "The oak and the reed". Haute-Vienne (France)
41567-18 DG
Saulo. Awakening.
48534-3 DG
François Delaistre. Psyche and Eros. 1785, Louvre museum.
41567-13 DG
Vauthier. The bather.
40755-2 DG
Jean-Alexandre Pézieux (1850-1898). "The enchanting echo", 1894, Maubeuge (France). Photograph by [...]
46742-5 DG
Crouching Venus. Louvre museum.
41570-20 DG
Huguenin. The nap.
40722-12 DG
Félix Charpentier (1858-1924). "The song".
41567-14 DG
Laurent-Honoré Marqueste (1848-1920). La Cigale.
48129-9 DG
Young Apollo. Art Salon, 1900.
40725-3 DG
Honoré Icard (1845-1917). "The Spider". Quimper (France).
40730-10 DG
Félix Charpentier (1858-1924). "The shooting star".
46742-12 DG
"Milon de Crotone", Pierre Puget (1620-1694), Louvre museum.
40722-1 DG
Alphonse Guilloux (1852-1939). "Orpheus exhaling". Rouen (France).
41570-15 DG
Robinet. Pandora's box.
40708-8 DG
G. Guitton. "Le Passant et la Colombe". (Man and Dove). Paris, musée d'Orsay.
46742-3 DG
Crouching Venus. Louvre museum.
41570-19 DG
Pierre Robinet (1811-1878).
41575-2 DG
Maurice Bouval (1863-1916). Grape. Plaster model.
46744-9 DG
Boy with Thorn (Spinaro), Louvre museum.
40701-10 DG
Per Hasselberg (1850-1894). Swedish sculptor. "Snowdrop", 1881. Paris.
46958-14 DG
Bouchet. "The Aim". Troyes Museum.
40751-16 DG
Alfred Boucher (1850-1934), French sculptor. "Resting". Paris, musée du Luxembourg.
46785-16 DG
Georges Barreau, French poetry.
40711-19 DG
Pleading.
46950-7 DG
François-Joseph Bosio (1768-1845). "Nymph Salmacis". Louvre museum.
40707-19 DG
Mrs Léon Bertaux (born Hélène Hébert, 1825-1909). Young girl having a bath. Paris, Musée du [...]
40724-14 DG
Félix Charpentier (1858-1924). "The improviser". Paris, musée du Luxembourg.
48533-12 DG
"Nisus and Euryalus". Jean-Baptiste Louis Roman (1792-1835). 1821. Louvre museum.
40904-4 DG
Thomas. Sculpture. 1903 art salon.
40711-16 DG
Coutheillas. "The death of the cicada". Marble. Photograph by Léopold Mercier.
40732-8 DG
Alexandre Charpentier (1856-1909). "Woman". Paris, musée du Luxembourg.
46958-3 DG
Becquet. Statue of St Sebastian.
46789-4 DG
"Dusk", by Boisseau. Paris Art Salon, 1883.
40742-2 DG
Charles René de Saint-Marceaux (1845-1915), French sculptor. "Genie keeping the secret of the [...]
46787-14 DG
Eugène-Antoine Aizelin (1821-1902). Psyche. 1861 Paris Art Salon. Quimper (France).
40724-12 DG
Joseph Tournois (1830-1891). "Perseus", 1875, bronze. Orsay museum.
40729-9 DG
Jeanne Itasse-Broquet. "Maenad". Orsay museum (Paris).
40722-4 DG
Léon Grandin (1856-1901). "Hyacinth's death", marble. Photograph by Léopold Mercier.
56859-14 DG
Sculpture. Woman with peacock.
4681-14 DG
Michelangelo (1475-1564). "Calmed down slave". Marble, 1513-1514. Paris, Louvre museum.
46789-18 DG
Hiolle. Arion on a dolphin. Luxembourg.
46957-18 DG
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Danaid. 1889, marble. Musée du Luxembourg.
41567-17 DG
Eugène Delaplanche (1836-1891). The Dance. Marble.
40757-10 DG
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). "The Kiss". Paris, Luxembourg Garden.
46788-7 DG
Winged Victory of Samothrace. Louvre museum.