Peace - Jules Coutan (1848-1939)

Bronze sculpture with a dark brown patina
Signed on the base " JulesCoutan "
Cast by " Thiébaut Frères FondeursParis " (with the foundry stamp)
Presented on a red marble base

France
model created in 1887
cast around 1890

height with the base 68,5 cm
width 40 cm
depth 18 cm 

A 3.50 meter model was made in 1888 to be exhibited in Square d'Anvers,in Paris (9th arrondissement).
It was then moved in 1984 and is now located inMontsouris park (14th arrondissement).

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Biography :
Jules Felix Coutan known as Jules Coutan(1848-1939) was a French sculptor. He was a student of Jules Cavelier at theSchool of Fine Arts in Paris where he was later a teacher, and had as students,among others, the sculptors Raymond Delamarre, Louis Leygue and the sculptorAimée-Carole Gombaut. He won the Rome Prize in 1872 for "Ajax braving the Gods and thunderbolt"and was boarder at the Villa Medicis from 1873 to 1876. Jules Coutan was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in1900.Among his most famous works, JulesCoutan realized the "Fountain ofProgress" at the Champ-de-Mars for the Universal Exhibition of Parisof 1889. He was then rewarded with a gold medal; "The Eagle Hunters", in 1900, a high relief in plaster, exposedto the Paris Orsay Museum. The bronze is now exposed in the anthropologygallery of the National Museum of Natural History, commissioned by the FrenchState under the title "The HumanRaces" ; "The Glory ofCommerce", sculpture decorating Grand Central Terminal in New York ;"France at the Renaissance",an ornamental statue placed at the base of the pylon of Alexandre III bridge inParis; or the monumental portico of the pavilion where the products of theManufacture de Sèvres were exhibited during the Universal Exhibition of 1900 inParis.