Henri-Charles Maniglier

Henri-Charles Maniglier was a French sculptor.

Maniglier was a pupil of Augustin-Alexandre Dumont and Étienne-Jules Ramey at the École des Beaux-Arts, and won the Prix de Rome in 1856. He executed a bas-relief for the Paris Opera House, many busts, and the statue, "Pénélope portant à ses prétendants l'arc d'Ulysse" (1868), in the Luxembourg. In 1858 he was made professor of sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts. He received the cross of the Legion of Honor in 1878, and a bronze medal at the Exposition of 1889.

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