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Jean Turcan (Arles, 13 September – Arles, 3 January ) was a French sculptor who specialized particularly in public figures.

Biography

Turcan was born to a poor flour-packer and was himself constrained by poverty to work as a knacker. Having been given a scholarship by the city of Marseille, he went to study under Antoine Bontoux at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris until his studies were interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War. In he resumed under Jules Cavelier and went on to win second prize in the Prix de Rome for his Jason carrying off the golden fleece. Two years later he exhibited his Ganymede^[1] at the Salon, winning second prize. A bronze version (destroyed in World War II) was placed in the park at Aix-les-Bains and seen there by Paul Verlaine, who wrote a homoerotic poem about it in ^[2]

Official commissions now began to come Turcan's way, including statues of Cardinal de Richelieu () and the historian Jul Laveugle et le paralytique hitler biography en.