Dimensions: 42 x 23 x 23 cm
signed on the bottom: 'Cyp. Godebski'
Biography
Grandson of the legionnaire and poet Cyprian, son of the émigré activist Franciszek Ksawery. He attended the Polish National School in Batignolles. He mastered the fundamentals of sculpture in F. Jouffroy’s studio. From 1858, he lived and worked in Lviv. In 1861, he moved to Vienna, where he carried out commissions for the imperial court. In 1863, he was in Paris, and subsequently lived alternately in France and Belgium. In 1870, he stayed in St. Petersburg and lectured at the local Academy. After returning to Paris, he ran an artistic and literary salon there. In 1877, he was appointed a member of the French National Academy, and in 1889, an officer of the Legion of Honor. From 1897, he served as president of the Artistic and Literary Circle in Paris.His most important works include the Monument to Liberation in Lima, the capital of Peru (1866–1859), and the Monument to Adam Mickiewicz in Warsaw (1898).
