Bronze Cup On Pedestal Emile Picault "perseus And Andromache" Salon Of 1873 Paris

Large Bronze Cup on Pedestal Tray representing "Perseus and Andromache" after a medal presented at the Paris Salon in 1873 by Emile Picault. André Émile Louis Picault, born on August 24, 1833 in Paris, died in the same city on August 24, 1922, is a French sculptor. Picault was a student of the painter Henri Royer. He exhibited at the Salon from 1863 to 1914, where he received an honorable mention in 1883 (Valentin 1er). He is the author of the Monument to Joseph Lakanal erected in Foix in 1882. His work will achieve great success with his editions of bronze statuettes. His work mainly includes allegorical or patriotic subjects and figures of warriors and mythological heroes, accompanied by sentences in Latin or French. The figure of the Genius, so dear to positivism, is repeated there several times while the genre figures favor the harmony of bodies over social realism. Diameter: 31.3 cm Height: 21 cm Note, traces of old oxidation.