Victor Ségoffin

Born in Toulouse, Ségoffin's early education was at the Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat. After school he was admitted to the Toulouse School of Fine Arts in the studio of Charles Ponsin-Andarahy. In 1887, having become an orphan, he joined the army. He took further education at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Louis-Ernest Barrias and Pierre-Jules Cavelier. Ségoffin won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1897. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics.^[1]

In 1920 he was appointed head of the women's studio at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, and an officier in 1911.^[2] A street in Toulouse is named after him.

His most notable works include:

• The war dance, marble, Musée d'Orsay, 1903–1905
• Sacred Mask Dance, bronze, Musée d'Orsay, 1905
• marble monument of Voltaire, meant for the Pantheon, now in the courtyard of the Lycée Voltaire, 1907–1921
• bronze Le Génie et le Temps, in the Cour Napoleon at the Louvre Palace, 1908, melted down during the German occupation
• bust of the Cuban-French poet José-Maria de Heredia, bronze, Jardin du Luxembourg
• Therese Combarieu, marble, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
• Denise Combarieu, bronze, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
• Emile Cartailhac, bronze, Museum of Toulouse, 1914

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  David victorious over Goliath (1895), Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
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  Judith with the head of Holofernes, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
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  Danse Sacrée (1905), Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
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  Monument à Voltaire (1907), Paris, Lycée Voltaire.
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  Bust of Emile Cartailhac (1914), Musée de Toulouse.
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  Bust of the Cuban-French poet José-Maria de Heredia, bronze, Jardin du Luxembourg