François-Léon Sicard

Place: Tours

Born: 1862

Death: 1934

Biography:

François-Léon Sicard was a French sculptor born in Tours, France in 1862. He studied at the École des beaux-arts de Tours and later at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris. In 1891, he won the prestigious Prix de Rome for his high-relief on the theme of Apollon chantant au milieu des bergers. He became a pensionnaire of the Villa Médicis in Rome from 1892 to 1895. Sicard's career was marked by numerous public and private commissions, and he received various awards, including the medal of honor at the Exposition universelle de 1900 and the medal of honor at the Salon de 1905. He became a professor at the École des beaux-arts de Paris and was elected a member of the Institut de France in 1924. He served as president of the Académie des beaux-arts in 1930. Sicard is known for his fiercely patriotic original works of art and his lithography. He died in Paris in 1934.