Editing Antoine Bourdelle (section)

==Early life and education==
Émile Antoine Bourdelle was born at [[Montauban]], [[Tarn-et-Garonne]] in France on 30 October 1861.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antoine-Bourdelle|access-date=2020-06-12|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> His father was a wood craftsman and cabinet-maker. In 1874, at the age of thirteen, he left school to work in his father's workshop, and also began carving his first sculptures of wood.

In 1876, with the assistance of writer [[Émile Pouvillon]], he received a scholarship to attend the School of Fine Arts in [[Toulouse]], though he remained fiercely independent and resisted the formal program.<ref>Lemoine, Colin, ''Bourdelle'', Cercle d'Art, (2004), pg. 8</ref> In 1884, at the age of twenty-four, he earned second place in the competition to enter the [[École des Beaux-Arts]] in Paris. There he worked in the studio of [[Alexandre Falguière]] and frequented the studio of [[Jules Dalou]], who was his neighbor.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=J1ssfGqvdysC Ruth Butler, ''Rodin: The Shape of Genius''], Yale University Press, 1993, page 266, {{ISBN|978-0-300-06498-8}}</ref>