Louis Vidal (the Blind Man) Said Natavel, Large Bronze Sculpture Of A Bull

Superb and large solid bronze sculpture representing a bull. This sculpture by Louis Vidal is very well known because it was created by the artist being blind. It has a very beautiful patina, it is in good condition Dimensions: Length 50 cm, Width 18 cm and Height 32 cm More photos: Louis Vidal (the blind) known as Natavel, Large bronze sculpture of a bull, 50 x 32 x 18 - ABN Antiquités (abnantiquites.com) Louis Vidal, Vidal the Blind or Vidal-Navatel is a French sculptor born December 6, 1831 in Nîmes and died May 9, 1892 in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. Louis Vidal was born in Nîmes on December 6, 1831. Born to an unknown father and Sophie Vidal-Navatel, he grew up in a family of artists, having as father-in-law the painter Alexandre Colin who married his mother for the second time and for half-brother Paul-Alfred Colin. He studied anatomy but became blind around 1853, which prevented him from pursuing this path. He studied with the animal sculptors Antoine-Louis Barye and Pierre Louis Rouillard and became an animal sculptor himself, replacing sight with touch. . This faculty allowed him to create portraits, he perceived the shape of faces by touching them and sculpted them in clay, and remains known for being the author of a sculpture representing a roaring lion, as well as that of a bull in bronze, donated by the State to the Museum of Fine Arts in Nîmes in 1867. Louis Vidal worked in particular with Alfred Barye, son of his master Antoine-Louis Barye. He became a modeling professor in 1888 at the Braille School in Paris. A portrait of the artist taken by photographer Étienne Carjat, dating from 1865, acquired by the National Museums in 1986, is kept in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay. Louis Vidal died on May 9, 1892 at the Quinze-Vingts hospital in Paris. Works Recumbent Panther, 1855, bronze, Orléans Museum of Fine Arts. Lying doe, 1859, bronze, former collection of Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte, Prince Napoléon, location unknown. Lioness, bronze, Nantes Museum of Fine Arts. Bull, 1867, bronze, Museum of Fine Arts of Nîmes. Suede, 1870, bronze, Ministry of Fine Arts. Large lion of Senegal, 1875, bronze, former collection of Madame Keistkrij, location unknown. Algerian Gazelle, 1879, wax, former collection of Charlotte de Rothschild, location unknown. Female African gazelle, 1879, bronze, former collection of Charlotte de Rothschild, location unknown. Kob, English horse, 1879, bronze, former collection of Charlotte de Rothschild, location unknown.