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Adèle d´Affry, duchess Castiglione Colonna
Known professionally as Marcello

Born: 6 July 1836, Fribourg, Switzerland
Died: 16 July 1879, Castellammare, Italy

Education:

Early 1850s
Privately educated in Fribourg, under the direction of Guillame d´Affry (1779-1860)

Art education in Fribourg and Nice, under the direction of Joseph-Auguste Dietrich (1821-1863) and Joseph Fricero (1807-1870)

1853-54 and 1857-58
Private sculpture training, under the tutelage of Heinrich Max Imhof (1795-1869)

Early 1860s
Anatomy lessons at the École practique de medicine in Paris, under the tutelage of Drs. Adoux and Sapey

Exhibition History:

Lille, Exposition des beaux-arts, 1866

London, Royal Academy Exhibition, 1865, 1866 and 1867

Munich, Exposition International des beaux-arts, 1869

Nice, Exposition au cercle artistique, 1877

Paris, Salon de Paris, 1863 through 1867 (Exposition Universelle, 1867); 1869, 1870, 1875, and 1876.

Paris, Exposition chez Durand-Ruel, 1873

Paris, Exposition du Cercle de l´union artistique, 1867

Vienna, Exposition Universelle, 1873

Exhibitions, Posthumous:

Fribourg, "Marcello et son temps," Musée d´art et d´histoire, 1959

Fribourg, "Marcello: Sculpteur," Musée d´art et d´histoire, 1980

Fribourg, Musée Marcello (1881-1936)

Los Angeles, "Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture in American Collections," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980

Paris, "Marcello," Musée Rodin, 1980

Philadelphia, "Art Under Napoléon III," Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1979

Zurich, Swiss National Exhibition, 1883

Awards:

Paris, 1876, Salon de 1876, Honorable mention and 4th class medal

Vienna, 1873, medal

Collections, Public:

Arras, Musée d´Arras

Bern, Kunstmuseum

Bulle, Musée Gruérien

Fribourg, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire

Fribourg, Musée d´art et d´histoire

Geneva, Château de Penthes

London, Victoria and Albert Museum

Lyon, Musée des beaux-arts

Marseille, Musée des beaux-arts

Montpellier, Jardin de Grammont

Paris, Musée Carnavalet

Paris, Musée d´Orsay

Paris, Opéra Garnier

Paris, Palais de L´Institute, Petit Salle des Séances

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art

New York, Dahesh Museum of Art

Salenstein, Napoleon Museum

Collections, Private:

  • Belfaux
  • Condé-sur-Sarthe
  • Fribourg
  • Paris
  • Zurich
  • Japan


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