Victor Ségoffin

bust of the Cuban-French poet José-Maria de Heredia, bronze, Luxembourg Garden

Victor Joseph Jean Ambroise Segoffin (1867–1925) was a French sculptor.

Born in Toulouse, educated at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Louis-Ernest Barrias and Pierre-Jules Cavelier, Segoffin won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1897. He became an instructor at the Ecole, became an officier of the Légion d'honneur in 1922, and a street in Toulouse is named for him.

His works include:

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