falguière's first bronze statue of importance was "le vainqueur au combat de coqs (victor of the cockfight)" (1864), and "tarcisius the christian boy-martyr" followed in 1867; both were exhibited in the luxembourg museum and are now in the musée d'orsay. his more important monuments are those to admiral courbet (1890) at abbeville and the famous joan of arc. other works include "eve" (1880), "diana" (1882 and 1891), "woman and peacock" (a. k. a. "juno and the peacock"), and "the poet", astride his pegasus spreading wings for flight. he sculpted "the dancer", based on cléo de mérode which today is also in the musée d'orsay.