The Exposition Universelle of 1855 ( French pronunciation: [ɛkspozisjɔ̃ ynivɛʁsɛl] ), better known in English as the 1855 Paris Exposition , was a world's fair held on the Champs-Élysées in Paris , France , from 15 May to 15 November 1855. Its full official title was the Exposition Universelle des produits de l'Agriculture, de l'Industrie et des Beaux-Arts de Paris 1855 . It was the first of ten major expositions held in the city between 1855 and 1937. Nowadays, the exposition's sole physical remnant is the Théâtre du Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées, designed by architect Gabriel Davioud , which originally housed the Panorama National.
10-613: Collas is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: Achille Collas (1795–1859), French engineer, inventor, writer and engraver Berni Collas (1954–2010), Belgian politician J. P. Collas Jean Collas (1874–1928), French rugby union player John von Collas (1678–1753), French architect Louis Antoine Collas (1775–1829), French painter Philippe Collas , French writer and scriptwriter Richard Collas Silvia Collas (born 1974), Bulgarian-French chess player [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
20-467: A separate pavilion on Avenue Montaigne . There were works from artists from 29 countries, including French artists François Rude , Ingres , Delacroix and Henri Lehmann , and British artists William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais . However, Gustave Courbet , having had several of his paintings rejected, exhibited in a temporary Pavillon du Réalisme adjacent to the official show. According to its official report, 5,162,330 visitors attended
30-783: A special medal. Further success came in 1855, when Collas was awarded the Grand Médaille d'Honneur of the Exposition Universelle in Paris. By the time of Barbedienne's death in 1892 the company had some 600 employees. It existed until 1954. Exposition Universelle (1855) The exposition was a major event in France , then newly under the reign of Emperor Napoleon III . It followed London 's Great Exhibition of 1851 and attempted to surpass that fair's Crystal Palace with its own Palais de l'Industrie . The arts displayed were shown in
40-479: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Achille Collas Achille Collas (1795–1859) was a French engineer, inventor, writer and engraver who developed a way of mechanically creating engravings after medallions and other reliefs, and a machine to copy sculptures at a smaller scale, the so-called "réduction méchanique", which popularized small sculptures and has been credited with being almost entirely responsible for "the transformation of
50-497: The Salon of 1833. Using this procedure, he created the Trésor de numismatique et glyptique . When it was finished in 1850, it reproduced some 15,000 items, spread over 20 volumes. His second great invention came in 1836, when he produced a pantograph -like machine to reproduce sculptures in different scales and materials. In 1838, he started a company together with Ferdinand Barbedienne ,
60-408: The surname Collas . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Collas&oldid=987248040 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
70-447: The "Société Collas et Barbedienne", for the production and marketing of reduced copies of sculptures in different materials ranging from plaster and wood to bronze and ivory. The first product of the company was a reproduction of the Venus de Milo , but for the next ten years nothing much happened, until Barbedienne sent some pieces to The Great Exhibition of 1851, where the company received
80-555: The bronze industry". Achille Collas was born in Paris in 1795. He worked as an engineer before joining the Army at the end of the First French Empire . Afterwards he worked as a toolmaker and inventor. He never married. He applied for many patents, most of them for long-forgotten inventions for buckle-making machines and other tools. His most successful inventions had to do with the reproduction of 3D artworks in 2D and 3D. He produced
90-511: The exposition, of whom about 4.2 million entered the industrial exposition and 900,000 entered the Beaux Arts exposition. Expenses amounted to upward of $ 5,000,000, while receipts were scarcely one-tenth of that amount. The exposition covered 16 hectares (40 acres) with 34 countries participating. For the exposition, Napoleon III requested a classification system for France's best Bordeaux wines which were to be on display for visitors from around
100-415: The illustrations for The authors of England: A series of medallion portraits of modern literary characters, engraved from the works of British artists by Henry Fothergill Chorley from 1838: this work contains a ten-page introduction outlining the new procedure of mechanically creating engravings from cameos and medals, developed by Collas. He developed this method between 1825 and 1832, demonstrating it at
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