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Charles Gumery

Charles-Alphonse-Achille Guméry was a French sculptor working in an academic realist manner in Paris. Several of his figures ornament the Opéra Garnier most notoriously the group La Danse, which was commissioned from him after the group by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was found unacceptable.

Selected works
His work in Paris includes : • the gilded figural groups ''L'Harmonie and La Poésie'' crowning the end pavilions of the Palais GarnierCirce on the south façade of the Cour Carrée in the Louvre palace, 1860 • the figure of Amsterdam at the Gare du Nord, circa 1846 • the figure of Temperance in the Fontaine Saint-Michel, 1858–60 ==Gallery==
Gallery
Image:Harmony Gumery Palais Garnier.jpg|''L'Harmonie'' (1869), Opéra Garnier. gilt copper electrotype. Image:Poetry Gumery Palais Garnier.jpg|La Poésie Image:ChamberyPalaisDeJustice.jpg|Antoine Favre ==Notes==
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