CHAPU, HENRI-MICHEL-ANTOINE

born Sept. 29, 1833, Le Me, Fr. died April 21, 1891, Paris French sculptor and portrait medallist whose works were softened expressions of the Neoclassical tradition. Early in his career Chapu spent five years in Italy after winning the Prix de Rome in 1855. Success came to him with his statue Mercury (1861) and his Jeanne d'Arc (1870), represented as a simple peasant. Numerous commissions followed, including a monument to the painter Henri Regnault in the courtyard of the cole des Beaux-Arts (1872) and the tomb of the Comtesse Marie d'Agoult at Pre-Lachaise Cemetery (1877). His last important work was a monument to Gustave Flaubert, with an allegorical figure of Truth (1890).