Jean Pierre Victor Huguenin

Place: Dole

Born: 1802

Death: 1860

Biography:

Victor Huguenin was a French sculptor. He was born on February 21, 1802, in Dole, France. His father was a musician. Victor Huguenin studied under Jules Ramey at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After teaching at Besançon, he returned to Paris. He exhibited in various exhibitions and received orders from Louis Philippe I for the Museum of the History of France, Versailles, the Jardin du Luxembourg, and the courtyard of the Louvre Palace. Around 1836 Huguenin created a sculpture of Charles VI of France and his mistress Odette de Champdivers. He undertook a marble statue of Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans (1370-1408), Duchess of Orléans, to an order of 16 January 1843 from the Minister of the Interior. In the late 1850s Huguenin undertook the decoration of the Villa Eugénie, the Biarritz summer home of Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenie, with Corinthian columns and reliefs of arms and crowned eagles. Victor Huguenin died on January 8, 1860, in Paris.