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Victor Joseph Jean Ambroise Ségoffin (5 March 1867 – 17 October 1925) was a French sculptor.

Biography

Born in Toulouse, Ségoffin's early education was at the Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat. After school he was admitted to the Toulouse School of Fine Arts in the studio of Charles Ponsin-Andarahy. In 1887, having become an orphan, he joined the army. He took further education at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Louis-Ernest Barrias and Pierre-Jules Cavelier. Ségoffin won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1897. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

In 1920 he was appointed head of the women's studio at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, and an officier in 1911. A street in Toulouse is named after him.

Works

His most notable works include:

• The war dance, marble, Musée d'Orsay, 1903–1905
• Sacred Mask Dance, bronze, Musée d'Orsay, 1905
• marble monument of Voltaire, meant for the Pantheon, now in the courtyard of the Lycée Voltaire, 1907–1921
• bronze Le Génie et le Temps, in the Cour Napoleon at the Louvre Palace, 1908, melted down during the German occupation
• bust of the Cuban-French poet José-Maria de Heredia, bronze, Jardin du Luxembourg
• Therese Combarieu, marble, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
• Denise Combarieu, bronze, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
• Emile Cartailhac, bronze, Museum of Toulouse, 1914

Gallery

• David victorious over Goliath (1895), Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
• Judith with the head of Holofernes, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
• Danse Sacrée (1905), Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
• Monument à Voltaire (1907), Paris, Lycée Voltaire.
• Bust of Emile Cartailhac (1914), Musée de Toulouse.
• Bust of the Cuban-French poet José-Maria de Heredia, bronze, Jardin du Luxembourg

References

1. "Victor Ségoffin". Olympedia. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
2. Base Léonore: Légion d'Honneur dossier

Bibliography

• Luce Rivet, "Victor Ségoffin (1867-1923)", Revue du Comminges, 2e trimestre 1988
• Guillaume Peigné, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs néo-baroques français (1870-1914), Paris, CTHS, Coll. Format no 71, 2012, 559 p. (ISBN 9782735507801), p. 445-454

External links

• RKD
• Benezit Dictionary of Artists online (subscription access only)
• Base Joconde: Portail des collections des musées de France - Ségoffin
• Online biography

• 1867 births
• 1925 deaths
• Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat alumni
• Prix de Rome for sculpture
• Officers of the Legion of Honour
• 20th-century French sculptors
• 19th-century French sculptors
• French male sculptors
• Olympic competitors in art competitions
• 19th-century French male artists