Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) Biscuit Bather

Bather in biscuit on a gilded brass base by Muthurin Moreau (1822-1912) in perfect condition no lack no restoration

Mathurin Moreau, born in Dijon on November 18, 1822 and died in Paris on February 14, 1912 on February 14, 1912, is a French sculptor, renowned for his decorative sculptures. . Mathurin Moreau, who owes his first name to his paternal grandfather, a locksmith in Dijon, was born at 7, rue Monge from the marriage of the sculptor Jean Baptiste Louis Josephe Moreau and Anne Marianne Richer, originally from Besançon where his father, Mathieu Richer, is from same sculptor. His brothers Hippolyte and Auguste are also sculptors. He was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Paris in 1841 in the workshops of Jules Ramet and Auguste Dumont. He won the second Prix de Rome in 1842 with Diodème removing the Palladium. He made his debut at the Salon of French Artists in 1848 and stood out there with the statue L'Élégie. He obtained a second class medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 in Paris, then a first class medal in 1878. In 1897, he was crowned with a medal of honor at the Salon of which he became a member of the jury during the exhibition. universal of 1900l in Paris. He then exhibited there a white marble bust representing Ishmael son of Abraham and Hagar (after his bust in Carrara marble and bronze from 1875, entitled: Ishmael, candor). Between 1849 and 1879, Mathurin Moreau collaborated with the Val art foundry and, as a shareholder, became one of its administrators, but, observes Pierre Kjellberg, "the reign of Napoleon III was also that of mantelpieces, until then very rare multiply and often appear in the catalogs of bronze publishers”: the Reader by Mathurin Moreau participates in this craze. The artist also provided models to the Compagnie des bronzes de Bruxelles and exhibited at the Central Union of Fine Arts Applied to Industry in the 1880s. In 1880, the artist received a bonus in the competition for the erection of an allegorical monument of La Défense de Paris at the Courbevoie roundabout (roundabout at the origin of the district of La Defense, but it is to Louis Ernest Barrias that the commission is attributed. From 1879 and until his death, Mathurin Moreau was elected mayor of the 19 arrondissement of Paris — created in 1860 after the annexation of the municipalities of Belleville and La Villette — where rue Priestley will take the name of avenue Mathurin Moreau by virtue of the decree of the July 16, 1912. He was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1865 and promoted to officer of the same order in 1885. He died on February 14, 1912 in his home at 15, passage Montenegro in Paris. He was buried in the Lilas cemetery, Mathurin Moreau, born in Dijon on November 18, 1822 and died in Paris on February 14, 1912 l February 14, 1912, is a French sculptor, renowned for his decorative sculptures. . Mathurin Moreau, who owes his first name to his paternal grandfather, a locksmith in Dijon, was born at 7, rue Monge from the marriage of the sculptor Jean Baptiste Louis Josephe Moreau and Anne Marianne Richer, originally from Besançon where his father, Mathieu Richer, is from same sculptor. His brothers Hippolyte and Auguste are also sculptors. He was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Paris in 1841 in the workshops of Jules Ramet and Auguste Dumont. He won the second Prix de Rome in 1842 with Diodème removing the Palladium. He made his debut at the Salon of French Artists in 1848 and stood out there with the statue L'Élégie. He obtained a second class medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 in Paris, then a first class medal in 1878. In 1897, he was crowned with a medal of honor at the Salon of which he became a member of the jury during the exhibition. universal of 1900l in Paris. He then exhibited there a white marble bust representing Ishmael son of Abraham and Hagar (after his bust in Carrara marble and bronze from 1875, entitled: Ishmael, candor). Between 1849 and 1879, Mathurin Moreau collaborated with the Val art foundry and, as a shareholder, became one of its administrators, but, observes Pierre Kjellberg, "the reign of Napoleon III was also that of mantelpieces, until then very rare multiply and often appear in the catalogs of bronze publishers”: the Reader by Mathurin Moreau participates in this craze. The artist also provided models to the Compagnie des bronzes de Bruxelles and exhibited at the Central Union of Fine Arts Applied to Industry in the 1880s. In 1880, the artist received a bonus in the competition for the erection of an allegorical monument of La Défense de Paris at the Courbevoie roundabout (roundabout at the origin of the district of La Defense, but it is to Louis Ernest Barrias that the commission is attributed. From 1879 and until his death, Mathurin Moreau was elected mayor of the 19 arrondissement of Paris — created in 1860 after the annexation of the municipalities of Belleville and La Villette — where rue Priestley will take the name of avenue Mathurin Moreau by virtue of the decree of the July 16, 1912. He was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1865 and promoted to officer of the same order in 1885. He died on February 14, 1912 in his home at 15, passage Montenegro in Paris. He was buried in the Lilas cemetery,