Background
The son of a cabinet maker from Lyon, Bonnassieux showed talent as a boy and was educated at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Augustin-Alexandre Dumont.
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Jean-Marie Bonnassieux
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Education
École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon.
Career
Bonnassieux subsequently taught at the Ecole, and among his students in the 1880s was the young American Lorado Taft, and the British-American sculptor Henry Hudson Kitson. Bonnassieux is buried at Montparnasse Cemetery.
Achievements
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In 1836 he was the co-winner (with Auguste Ottin) of the Prix de Rome, then completed his education in Rome under the direction of Ingres. Bonnassieux is set in the context of rigid French academic training in the 19th century in a study of the careers of seventeen winners of the Prix de Rome by A. Le Normand, Louisiana Tradition Classique et l"Esprit Romantique: Les sculpteurs de l"académie de France à Rome de 1824 à 1840 (Rome, 1991).
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Born
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Died
June 3, 1892 (aged 81)
Education
Awards
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Prix de Rome Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France.The Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France.