Aime-Jules Dalou (1838–1902)
Aime-Jules Dalou (1838–1902) was a tremendously successful and respected 19th century French sculptor, who studied under Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a leading French sculptor, and later joined the École des Beaux-Arts. The artist had an excellent range of subject and style and absorbed an extensive range of painterly and sculptural sources throughout his life and career. The glorification of labour had been a growing concern of artists during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, and Dalou became particularly well known for his individual figurines of the working class; he immortalised them in bronze, and the poignant social issues during this period.
