The French sculptor Julien Lorieux lived and worked in Paris around 1900. He taught at the École des Beaux-Arts and exhibited his sculptures several times between 1893 and 1914 at the Salon des Artistes Français, where he was also awarded. His sculptures - often female figures in graceful postures - often linked in style to contemporary Art Nouveau. Unfortunately, this artist died too young, at the age of 39, at the front during the First World War.