Pierre Marie François Ogé [SEP] place of death
Pierre Marie François Ogé
Pierre Marie François Ogé was a French sculptor born in Saint-Brieuc on 24 March 1849 and who died in Paris on 5 June 1913.
Biography.
He was the son of the sculptor of the same name and received his first lessons from his father. On his father's death in 1867, he travelled to Paris and worked in the studio of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. Under Carpeaux' instructions he worked on the "Cinq Parties du Monde" for the Fontaine du Luxembourg, assisted
French Navy.
- The tomb of the sculptor Pierre Marie François Ogé. Ogé's work includes the decoration on the facade of Saint-Brieuc's paiais de justice. Ogé was the sculptor of the war memorial in Saint-Brieuc's cimetière de l'Ouest. This commemorated sixty six men of Saint-Brieuc who lost their life's in the 1870 war. Ogé was himself mobilized in that war. The memorial includes Ogé's sculpture of a wounded Breton soldier. The bust decorating the tomb is by Ogé's son.