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Marcel Début was a French sculptor famous for his Art Nouveau bronze depictions of historical figures such as Mozart's and Gaelic warriors, scenes from Greek mythology, rustic peasants in Tunisia, and pedigreed animals. Born in 1865 in France, he studied with his father the famous sculptor Jean Didier Début, who specialized in more traditionally realistic figurative work, as well as with Henri Michel Antoine Chapu, renowned bronze and marble sculptor, at the École des Beaux-Arts. Read the full biography

Marcel Début was a French sculptor famous for his Art Nouveau bronze depictions of historical figures such as Mozart's and Gaelic warriors, scenes from Greek mythology, rustic peasants in Tunisia, and pedigreed animals. Born in 1865 in France, he studied with his father the famous sculptor Jean Didier Début, who specialized in more traditionally realistic figurative work, as well as with Henri Michel Antoine Chapu, renowned bronze and marble sculptor, at the École des Beaux-Arts. Début began exhibiting as both a painter and a sculptor at the 1883 Salon until the onset of World War I, when the Salon was suspended. The artist died in 1933 in France.