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A highly acclaimed sculptor in his day, Jacques Labatut has since fallen somewhat into oblivion. Fortunately, the work of Genevi\u00e8ve Albinet, artist\u2019s specialist, has enabled us to reconstruct the busy career of this sculptor from Toulouse, who won the Prix de Rome in 1881 with\u00a0<\/span>Tyrt\u00e9e chantant ses Mess\u00e9niennes parmi les<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>Lac\u00e9d\u00e9moniens<\/i>. An advocate of his native south western France, he created his monumental sculpture\u00a0<\/span>La Garonne offrant l’\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 \u00e0 la Ville de Toulouse<\/i>, the full-length portrait of the Republican politician\u00a0<\/span>Pascal Duprat<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>in Hagetmau, and\u00a0<\/span>L’\u00c9loquence <\/i>in the Monument des Girondins<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>in Bordeaux. He was part of the group of \u201cToulousains\u201d formed under the aegis of Falgui\u00e8re, the master of almost all of them: Merci\u00e9, Marqueste, Mengue, Rivi\u00e8re, Seysses and S\u00e9goffin, who represent a significant trend of \u201cfin de si\u00e8cle\u201d sculpture that, even in its apparent academicism, heralded a new conception of the art of sculpting.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But it was in Paris that he made his mark, both in the intimacy of the Salons of bourgeois society, through his talents as a portraitist, and in the prestigious urban decorative scheme of the 1900 Exposition Universelle,\u00a0in the monumental <\/span>La Musique<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>in the Grand Palais. His\u00a0<\/span>Imprimerie <\/i>(1892) in the entrance porch of the Biblioth\u00e8que nationale still welcomes visitors today.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The sculptor also excelled in historical subjects, as demonstrated by his masterly\u00a0<\/span>Caton d\u2019Utique<\/i> a youthful work of 1878 (marble H. 1.80 m) or his\u00a0<\/span>Enfant martyr<\/i>, or\u00a0again his <\/span>L\u00e9vite important le corps de sa femme morte…\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>Our hitherto unpublished\u00a0<\/span>Saint Jerome<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>is included in Labatut’s list of works under the heading \u201cSaint J\u00e9r\u00f4me, terre cuite\u201d. Very close in composition to a painting by Simone Contarini (1563-1633) in the H\u00f4tel d’Ass\u00e9zat in Toulouse, Saint Jerome contemplating a skull here expresses meditative and spiritual thought of great intensity. As Madame Albinet put it in our conversation: \u201cThis is great Labatut!\u201d This figure, modelled in clay and inward-looking, is able to convey all the tension in this meditation over a simple skull, purported to be the seat of the soul.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jacques LABATUT<\/span><\/h1>\n

Original terracotta signed \u201cLabatut\u201d
\nH. 12 \u00bd\u201d x W. 6\u201d\u00a0x D. 8 \u00bc\u201d
\nCirca 1890
\nBibliography: \u201cLe sculpteur Labatut au Mus\u00e9e Saint-Raymond\u201d, article in l’Art M\u00e9ridional<\/em>, January 5, 1936;\u00a0 Guitard E.U., \u00ab\u00a0La r\u00e9trospective Labatut au mus\u00e9e Saint-Raymond\u00a0\u00bb, in Bulletin Municipal de<\/em> Toulouse,<\/em> 1936, pp 47-54\u00a0; \u00a0\u201cLes Toulousains\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0pl\u00e2tres originaux et sculptures du XIXe si\u00e8cle<\/em>\u201d, exhibition catalogue, Toulouse, Mus\u00e9e des Augustins, October 1, 1991 – January 6, 1992, page 5. Genevi\u00e8ve Albinet,\u00a0Jacques Labatut (1851-1935)\u00a0<\/em>:\u00a0parcours d’un sculpteur toulousain<\/em>, Can\u00e9jan 2021\u00a0; Genevi\u00e8ve Albinet, \u00ab\u00a0Jacques Labatut (1851-1935) Catalogue illustr\u00e9 de son \u0153uvre\u00a0\u00bb, Bulletin de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de l\u2019histoire de l\u2019Art fran\u00e7ais<\/em>, 2024, page 163, Saint J\u00e9r\u00f4me<\/em> reproduced under the n\u00b0 81.<\/p>\n

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