Joseph-Olindo Gratton

Joseph-Olindo Gratton (1855 - 1941) was a sculptor, a cabinetmaker and a sculptor Québécois.

Native of Holy-Therese-with-Blainville, it makes his traditional studies with the Small seminar of Holy-Therese starting from 1869.

He chooses then an industrial career in Montreal and is registered at the teacher training school Jacques-Cartier in 1872. Gratton has as Masters the sculptor Charles Dauphin and the architect Napoleon Bourassa.

Gratton assists Louis-Philippe Hébert since 1881. Associated with Philippe Laperle of 1888 with 1891, he becomes sculptor in his own name and manufactures two wood angels to the Chapelle Notre-Dame of the Sacred Heart. Its Ecce Homo guide the entry of the vault until in 1978 when a fire caused damage.

Gratton carries out more than three hundred works between 1877 and 1939. It in particular carved the statues of the Basilica-cathedral Marie-Queen-of-World of 1892 with 1898. In its sculptures, Gratton employed the Bronze and the Cuivre.

It amounts to Holy-Therese in 1901 and continuous carving angels. Its statute improves after the First World War and it carries out other works for the churches of the laurentides and Montreal. Its last achievements are made of 1936 with 1938 and he dies in 1941

Works of sculpture

With the cathedral

  • Holy Antoine de Padoue and the Child Jesus (1898)
  • Holy Vincent of Paul and a child found (1893)
  • Holy Hyacinthe holding a statuette of the Virgin (1899)
  • Holy Thomas d' Aquin (1900)
  • Saint Paul (1898)
  • Holy Jean the Evangelist (1893)
  • Holy Jacques-the-Major (1892)
  • Holy Joseph and the Child Jesus (1899)
  • Saint Jean Baptist (1899)
  • Holy Patrice (1899)
  • Holy Ignace d' Antioche (1893)
  • Holy Charles Borromée (1899)
  • Holy François d' Assise (1898)

Other sculptures

  • Christ in cross of the church Holy-Catherine of Alexandria d' Outremont
  • Eleven statues for the vault of the séminiare of Holy-Therese
  • Holy Isidore the plowman
  • Sculpture for the church Holy-Anne of Fall To rivet with the Massachusetts
  • Sculptor external of the church of the Saint-Child-Jesus

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