Georges Laethier - Bronze Representing A Woman Dressing

Biography: Georges Laëthier (1875-1955) is a French sculptor. It was first of all with his brother Edmond (1859-1881), a painter, that he learned about both drawing and painting. At the age of seventeen, Georges Laëthier won the first prize for drawing at the Victor-Hugo high school where he was a student, although his passion was already sculpture. Encouraged by his mother, who was very close to him, Laëthier continued his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Besançon. His teacher was the statuary Just Becquet (1828-1907). He obtained an honorable mention in 1901 for his "Old man drinking from a source", a subject which again earned him a third class medal in 1903. An artist from Besançon, in other words from Besançon, Georges Laëthier is very attached to his region, the Franche-Comté, where it honors its famous men by representing them, such as Louis Pasteur, Victor Hugo, Gustave Courbet, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Louis Élisée Cusenier, Hilaire de Chardonnet… After the First World War comes the time for commemorations. In collaboration, most often with Maurice Boutterin (1882-1979) the avant-garde architect and adopted Parisian and sometimes other regional sculptors such as Paul Gasq (1860-1944) and Albert Pasche, Laëthier created numerous monuments to the deaths in Franche-Comté, notably in Ornans, Frasne, Isle-sur-le-Doubs, Pontarlier, Baume-les-dames and of course in Besançon.