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Monument à Caroline Angebert

Angélique-Caroline-Omérine Colas, Paris 1793 - ? 1880
married with Claude Jacques Angebert; great friend of Lamartine and supported his candidacy in the election in Flanders.

Hortense Tanvet & David d'Angers
Montagutelli Frères Fondeurs (Paris)
1913

Dunkerque / Monument à Caroline Angebert

Description

Bronze bust of Caroline Angebert on a concrete pedestal with a bronze portrait medaillon of Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, chevalier de Pratz (Mâcon 1790 - Paris 1869), French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France (Wikipedia).

Dunkerque - Monument à Caroline Angebert

Inscription(s)

CAROLINE
ANGEBERT
1793 _ 1880

Portrait: alphonse de lamartine

Signature

Bust: Hortense Tanvet
Montagutelli Frères | Fondeurs Paris.
Portrait: david 1830 [and] copie par Hortense Tanvet.

Sculptors

Pierre-Jean David, usually called David d'Angers (Angers 1788 -Paris 1856), French sculptor (Wikipedia).
Hortense Tanvet (Mésanger 1880 - ?), French sculptress.

Sources & Information

E-monumen.net.
Ministere de culture, Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Réf. Palissy IM59000008.
Ex-libris blog, Une amie dunkerquoise de Lamartine : Caroline Angebert.

Locatie (N 51°2'3" - E 2°22'25") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frnp045; Photograph: 30 July 2015
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