falguière was a painter as well as a sculptor. his "wrestlers" (1875) and "fan and dagger" (1882; a defiant spanish woman) were in the luxembourg, and other pictures of importance are "the beheading of st john the baptist" (1877), "the sphinx" (1883), "acis and galatea" (1885), "old woman and child" (1886) and "in the bull slaughter-house".