(Jean-Fran?ois-)Th?odore Gechter

(b Paris, 1796; d Paris, 11 Dec 1844). French sculptor. Like Antoine-Louis Barye, Gechter was a pupil of Fran?ois-Joseph Bosio and Baron Gros. His first Salon exhibits in 1824 had heroic Classical and mythological subjects. After 1830 he followed the example of Barye in turning to small-scale sculpture, usually including animals, but without Barye's zoological bias. After being shown at the Salon in 1833, his Combat of Charles Martel and Abderame, King of the Saracens (Meaux, Mus. Bossuet) was commissioned in bronze by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Although occasionally

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