Winged Victory - François Léon Sicard (1862-1934)

Bronze representing the winged victory brown patina and base of a sea green marble, stamp of the founder Charles Fumière and André Gavignot associate under the company * Thiébaut Frères signed François Léon Sicard born in Tours in 1862 and died in 1934 follows the courses of the School of Fine Arts in Tours and obtained a municipal scholarship to study at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. Winner of the Prix de Rome in 1891, he was a resident of the Villa Medici in Rome from 1892 to 1895 Professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, i He was the official sculptor of Georges Clemenceau, We cannot forget the small Victory in bronze by François Sicard intended for Clemenceau and offered to General de Lattre de Tassigny by the son of the sculptor, Pierre Sicard. Musée D'Orsay owns works by him Distinctions François Sicard was made a knight in the national order of the Legion of Honor by decree of August 16, 1900 and promoted to officer, of the same order, by decree of May 16, 19103.