{{Short description|French sculptor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}} 200px|thumb|right|''Le Tireur d'épines'' '''Abel Dimier''' (14 September 1794 – 15 November 1864) was a French sculptor.
Dimier was born in Paris and was a pupil of Cartelli. He won the Prix de Rome in 1819 with a bas-relief in plaster named ''Enée blessé, gueri par Vénus'', which can be seen at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. From 1820 to 1824, he lived at the French Academy in Rome,<ref>{{cite web|title="État par discipline des pensionnaires de l'Académie de France à Rome (1800–1890)", according to Brunel (Georges), ''Correspondance des directeurs. Nouvelle série. Vol. I. Répertoires'', Rome, Ed. dell'Elefante, 1979, p. 87-117. |url=http://silvanus.free.fr/archafr/liste_des_pensionnaires |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120630014916/http://silvanus.free.fr/archafr/liste_des_pensionnaires |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 June 2012 |publisher=Silvanus.fr |accessdate=28 September 2008 }}</ref> alongside many sculptors, including Auguste Dumont, Francisque Joseph Duret, Georges Jacquot, Joseph Philippe Lemaire, Étienne-Jules Ramey, and Bernard Gabriel Seurre.
==Main works== * ''Enée blessé, gueri par Vénus'', bas-relief, 1819, Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts * ''Le Tireur d'épines'', statue, marble, Lyon, musée des beaux-arts, 1829<ref>{{cite web |title=''Le Tireur d'épines'' |url=http://mistral.culture.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr?ACTION=RETROUVER&FIELD_1=Ctyob&VALUE_1=&FIELD_2=AUTR&VALUE_2=Dimier%2b&FIELD_3=Clieu&VALUE_3=&FIELD_4=REPR&VALUE_4=&FIELD_5=Cdate&VALUE_5=&FIELD_6=Cdecv&VALUE_6=&FIELD_7=LOCA&VALUE_7=&FIELD_8=Mat%e9riaux%20%2f%20Techniques&VALUE_8=&FIELD_9=Titre&VALUE_9=&NUMBER=3&GRP=0&REQ=%28%28Dimier%2b%29%20%3aAUTR%20%29&USRNAME=nobody&USRPWD=4%24%2534P&SPEC=9&SYN=1&IMLY=&MAX1=1&MAX2=1&MAX3=100&DOM=All|publisher=Base Jaconde |accessdate=28 September 2008}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dimier, Abel}} Category:1794 births Category:1864 deaths Category:Sculptors from Paris Category:Prix de Rome for sculpture
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