F. Desruelles “the Smiling Young Boy”

Beautiful sculpture representing a smiling young boy
Fixed on a serpentine base
Material: Terracotta
Total height: 44 cm
Small chip (1.5cm)
stain and small loss right cheek,
small chip base corner lower part.
Félix-Alexandre Desruelles is one of the most important French artists
to have distinguished himself in the commemorative sculpture of the First World War.
A student of Alexandre Falguière, François Rude, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and Jean-Antoine Houdon,
he exhibited at the Society of French Artists from 1885, won a medal of honor there in 1928
and became a member of the jury. He obtained a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1900
and two diplomas of honor at the Exhibition of Decorative Arts of 1925[1].
He is a member of the Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts.
He is the husband of the sculptor Germaine Oury-Desruelles (1889-1978)
and the father of the painter Rémyne Desruelles.
He created bronze busts of two of his friends: Eugène Chigot and Henri Le Sidaner.
Prix de Rome