
A la memoire des eleves de l'école des beaux-arts morts pour la defense de la patrie, 1870-1871
1887 · Bronze
Diam.: 8.1 cm (3 3/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago

Charles Jean Marie Degeorge was a French sculptor, and medallist, whose best-known work, La jeunesse d'Aristote (1875) depicts the philosopher as a semi-nude teenage boy sitting in a large chair, looking bored as he studies a scroll. The statue is currently in the Musée d'Orsay.
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