Victor Ségoffin

French sculptor

Photo of Ségoffin, 1901

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.^[1]

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.^[2] 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

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  David victorious over Goliath (1895), Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
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  Judith with the head of Holofernes, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
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  Danse Sacrée (1905), Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
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  Monument à Voltaire (1907), Paris, Lycée Voltaire.
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  Bust of Emile Cartailhac (1914), Musée de Toulouse.
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  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