Little Boy With A Basket - Barrias Sculptor, Barbedienne Founder

BARRIAS Louis Ernest, 1841-1905 Child with a basket Bronze with a nuanced light brown patina, on the terrace: E. BARRIAS, on the back, on the terrace: F. BARBEDIENNE Height: 14.5 cm Biography: Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905) is a French sculptor. He comes from a family of artists. His father was a porcelain painter and his older brother, Félix-Joseph Barrias, a renowned painter. Louis-Ernest Barrias entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1858, he abandoned painting to turn to sculpture under the direction of François Jouffroy. In 1864, he won the Prix de Rome, on the theme of The Foundation of Marseille, and was hired on the construction site of the Paris Opera. He subsequently produced numerous sculpted works, most of them in marble. In 1881, Louis-Ernest Barrias was awarded a medal of honor for fine arts and named a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1878, then promoted to officer in 1881 and commander in 1900. The artist replaced Auguste Dumont at the Institute in 1884, then succeeded Jules Cavelier as professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, where, among his most notable students, were Victor Ségoffin, Charles Despiau and Paul Landowski.