Louis Albert Carvin, born in Paris on August 7, 1875 and died in the same city on January 6, 1951, is a French sculptor. Biography Born to a father painter and draftsman at the Ministry of War, Louis Albert Carvin was admitted to the École des beaux-arts de Paris where he was a student of Emmanuel Frémiet and Georges Gardet. A member of the Society of French Artists, he exhibited at the Salon of this society from the end of the 19th century to 1933. He obtained an honourable mention in 18943. Carvin realises La Muse de l'aviation, a bronze trophy given on May 1, 1909, by Léon Bollée, president of the Aéroclub de la Sarthe, to the Orville and Wilbur Wright brothers. He executed their bust on the occasion of the Michelin Cup, in Pau, in 19082. His work Le Spleen (1934), representing a barzoi, is erected in the White House Park in Clamart. Specialised in animal sculpture, it takes as a model deer, deer, lions, lionesses, panthers, birds, wolf dogs, sometimes horses, such as the group L'Accolade depicting a couple of pursangs, published by the J.B. foundry in Paris.