Antonin Carlès

Who was Antonin Carlès?

Jean-Antonin Carles was a French sculptor.

Born in Gimont, Carlès began his studies in Marseille and then successively to the École des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse and that of Paris. He was a pupil of François Jouffroy and Ernest-Eugène Hiolle, he won the Grand Prix de l'Exposition Universelle in 1889. He belonged to the Society of French Artists. Several models of his sculptures are kept at the Musée des Jacobins d'Auch. He died in Paris.