DALOU, (AIM-) JULES

born Dec. 31, 1838, Paris died April 15, 1902, Paris French sculptor noted for allegorical group compositions of Baroque inspiration and for simpler studies of common people, representative of the naturalist trend in French sculpture. Dalou's early reliefs and large public monuments are enlivened by the classicist style that he learned from his teacher, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. His most notable Parisian monuments include the bronze Triumph of the Republic (187999) at the Place de la Nation and the memorial to painter Eugne Delacroix in the Luxembourg Gardens (1890). His later, smaller sculptures reveal an increasing sympathy with the compassionate, somewhat sentimental view of human life and toil found in the paintings of Jean-Franois Millet. Representative of this approach are several mother-and-child groups and the terra-cotta figures of workers (Petit Palais, Paris) for a projected Monument to the Workers (c. 188998).