Jean-baptise DANIEL-DUPUIS

He was Born in 1849, and died tragically in 1899.

At the age of 19, he was awarded second prize in Rome in medal engraving and was at the same time accepted as a drawing teacher at the Paris "Ecole Municipale".

After the war, in 1872, he got first prize in Rome. His stay in Rome marked a staging point in the art and technique of cast medal. He got first prize in the two contests organised by the city of Paris in 1879, for the medal of the French Republic and the city of Paris, and the memorial medal of the Universal Exhibition.

He sculpted low relieves for the Paris city hall and executed some drawings for French and foreign bank notes. He had a feel for life, movement, yet he was considered as rather superficial.

M. Roger Marx wrote about him: "The variety of his groups and postures, his obvious ease in filling space, are as many proofs that we are dealing here with a particularly decorative imagination".