Henri Chapu

Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu (29 September 1833 – 21 April 1891) was a French sculptor in a modified Neoclassical tradition.

He won the Prix de Rome in 1855, then spent five years in Italy. His statues Mercury of 1861 and Jeanne d'Arc of 1870 (in which she was represented as a peasant girl) were his first big successes, and led to many commissions thereafter. Notable work included a monument to Henri Regnault in the courtyard of Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1872), the tomb of Marie d'Agoult (1877), and a monument to Gustave Flaubert (1890), his last major work.