Having failed to win an 1858 competition for a commission to create a statue of king Don Pedro II of Portugal, and affected by the failure of his Vénus aux cheveux d'or (Golden-haired Venus) at the Salon of 1863 despite its purchase by Napoleon III, Arnaud fell little by little into madness.
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He conceived the tympanum and 35 statues relating to the life of the Virgin for Sées's cathedral in 1852 and, for his birthplace of La Rochelle, he designed a monument to M. Fleuriau de Bellevue (bust and bas-relief in bronze) in 1853.
Auguste Rodin | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres | Auguste Renoir | Auguste and Louis Lumière | Auguste Perret | Auguste Comte | Arnaud Desplechin | Auguste Escoffier | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi | Auguste Molinier | Yvonne Arnaud | Travis d'Arnaud | St Arnaud, Victoria | Saint Arnaud | Richard Auguste Morse | Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud | Jacques Auguste de Thou | Auguste-Louis Bertin d'Antilly | Auguste de Marmont | Auguste Ambroise Tardieu | Arnaud Montebourg | Arnaud Guillaume de Barbazan | Victor Scipion Charles Auguste de La Garde de Chambonas | St Arnaud | Saint Arnaud, New Zealand | Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt | Philogène Auguste Galilée Wytsman | Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy |