Charles Degeorge

Charles Degeorge

1837 1888

French sculptor (1837-1888)

Charles Jean Marie Degeorge was a French sculptor, and medallist, whose best-known work, La jeunesse d'Aristote (1875) depicts the philosopher as a semi-nude teenage boy sitting in a large chair, looking bored as he studies a scroll. The statue is currently in the Musée d'Orsay.

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