Charles-Auguste Lebourg

s Lebourg was born in Nantes, the son of Auguste François Lebourg and Hyacinthe Virginie Langlair. He studied drawing and sculpture under Nantes sculptor Amédée Ménard (ca. 1805–1873). Lebourg's bronze work, Enfant nègre jouant avec un lézard ("Negro child playing with a lizard"), debuted at the Paris Salon of 1853, and won honorable mention at the city's Exposition Universelle two years later. He exhibited a bronze statue of a bagpipe player at the Salon of 1857, and his marble work, Gallic Victim, won a medal at the Salon of 1859. For the 1867 Salon, Lebourg exhibited a terra cotta work, Games of Love. He won a medal the following year with a marble statue, ''L'enfant à la sauterelle''. Lebourg's 1883 Salon entry, Le Travail, was originally a plaster statue that was later cast in bronze. During this same period, Lebourg provided decorative work for additions to the Louvre, the Church of the Holy Trinity, and the Hôtel de Ville (Paris's city hall). The first "Wallace fountains" were installed in Paris in 1872. Lebourg entered his work at salons in Nantes in 1872 and 1886, and in Rennes in 1887. His final entry at the Paris Salon was in 1904. ==Works==

Lebourg is best known for the Wallace fountains, which can be found throughout the world. More than 100 of the fountains are scattered throughout France, mostly in Paris, but also in Nantes, Bordeaux, and several other French cities. Wallace stipulated that the designs of the fountains follow several guidelines. First, the fountains should be tall enough to be visible from afar, but not so tall as to affect the harmony of the immediate landscape. The fountains had to be both easy to use and pleasing to the eye, and affordable enough to allow the maximum number to be installed. The materials used to build the fountains needed to be weather resistant and easy to maintain. The larger fountains stand , and consist of an octagonal pedestal topped with four unique caryatids– representing kindness, simplicity, charity and sobriety– supporting a dome decorated with dolphins. The design of this larger model was inspired by the Fontaine des Innocents in Paris, He provided one step in the monument to the 1870 defenders of Paris. Lebourg created busts of numerous individuals, among them Lady Wallace (wife of Richard Wallace), Émile de Girardin, Auguste Comte, and Eugène Livet. ==Gallery==

Wallace fountains Image:Fontaine Wallace Reims 1.jpg Image:Fontaine Wallace avenue d'Ivry.JPG Image:P1010337 Paris XIII Fontaine Wallace place de la Commune de Paris reductwk.JPG Image:Font Wallace Pt Pasteur.jpg Other works Image:Nantes, statue de Jeanne d'Arc devant la basilique Saint-Donatien et Saint-Rogatien.jpg|Statue of Joan of Arc in Nantes Image:Charles Lebourg - buste de Mme Wallace.jpg|Bust of Lady Wallace Image:Statue Fontainebleau Charles Le Bourg.jpg|Statue at the Palace of Fontainebleau ==See also==