André Chenier's Muse

In 1888, Denys-Pierre Puech modelled and exhibited his plaster version of Muse d'André Chenier (ENG. André Chenier's Muse) in the Paris Salon (no. 4554). The state commissioned a marble version of the work, which was exhibited the following year (no. 4839) and subsequently installed in the Musée du Luxembourg. André Chenier was a well-known royalist poet guillotined in the final days of Robespierre's reign of terror. It was during the 141 days he spent incarcerated in the St Lazare prison prior