page_title: Charles Virion
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context_page_description: Charles Louis Eugène Virion was a noted French sculptor and ceramicist, principally of animals.
  Virion studied sculpture in Paris under Jean-Paul Aubé and Charles Gauthier and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1886 until the 1930s. He was awarded a distinction in 1893 and became a member the same year. He won a third-class medal in 1895. At the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 he won a bronze medal. He also exhibited at the Salon des Animaliers after 1913.
  After the First World War, he made memorials for several municipalities including those of Montigny-sur-Loing, Nemours, La Genevraye and Arbonne-la-Forêt.
context_section_description: Charles Louis Eugène Virion (Ajaccio, 1 December 1865  - Montigny-sur-Loing, 30 December 1946) was a noted French sculptor and ceramicist, principally of animals.
  Virion studied sculpture in Paris under Jean-Paul Aubé and Charles Gauthier and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1886 until the 1930s. He was awarded a distinction in 1893 and became a member the same year. He won a third-class medal in 1895. At the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 he won a bronze medal. He also exhibited at the Salon des Animaliers after 1913.
  After the First World War, he made memorials for several municipalities including those of Montigny-sur-Loing, Nemours, La Genevraye and Arbonne-la-Forêt.
caption: Mother's Love. Public statue by Charles Virion at Largo do Arouche, in São Paulo, Brazil.
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