Large 19th Century Bronze, 72 Cm, Jean Jules Samson 1823/1902, The Roman Dancer

Period: 19th century, lost wax bronze and on a bronze base, in excellent condition, noted a small hollow bump on the side of the tambourine, barely visible, see the last photo ...
Signed: J. Samson, 19th century artist referenced and side
Subject: The Roman dancer
Dimensions: total height: 72 cm, width: 32 cm, depth: 25 cm, approximately 25 Kg

Biography:
Justin Chrysostome SANSON 1833 / 1910
Justin-Chrysostome Sanson born August 9, 1833 in Nemours and died November 1, 1910 in Paris is a French sculptor. He is the main founder of the castle-museum of Nemours. Winner of the Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1861, he rubbed shoulders with many artists with whom he maintained friendships among whom we find sculptors (such as Louis Breitel, Just Becquet, Jean-André Delorme, etc.), musicians (Jules Massenet), architects (Louis Boitte, Jean Herbault, etc.) or painters (Henri-Charles Daudin, Paul Baudouin, etc.).
Early life and training: In 1852, Justin-Chrysostome Sanson was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of François Jouffroy. In 1861, he won the Grand Prix de Rome for his bas-relief Ulysses Bringing Chryseis to Her Father, and became a resident of the Villa Medici for five years, completing his training surrounded by works of Antiquity.Artistic career: Between 1868 and 1883, he created sculptures for the decoration of Parisian monuments such as the Tuileries Palace, the City Hall, the Louvre Palace, the Opéra Garnier, and the Saint-François-Xavier Church.
For the Palais de Justice in Amiens, he sculpted the figures of The Charity of Saint Martin, The Law, Justice, The Law, etc. The most prized of his works is his Pieta, preserved in the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Nemours, whose bronze was awarded a medal at the Salon of 1869, and the marble at the Universal Exhibition of 1878 in Paris. Justin Sanson was named a knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honor by decree of July 26, 18762. He died on November 1, 1910 at his home in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. In 1901, Justin-Chrysostome Sanson created with two other Nemours artists the Association of the Society of Friends of the Old Castle in order to save the castle of Nemours from ruin.
After restoration, the museum opened its doors on October 18, 1903. Sanson donated some of his works to the museum in 1901, and bequeathed his studio collection to it upon his death in 1910. The Dancer of Saltarelle is this artist's flagship work. This bronze statue cast by Thiébaut, 168 cm high, exhibited at the Salon in 1866 and placed in the garden of Diana at Fontainebleau, reappeared in bronze reduction under the name of Roman Dancer in 1869. Sanson also executed statues for the decoration of the Louvre, the Tuileries, the Opera, the Town Hall, the church of Saint François Xavier, for the courthouse of Amiens as well as a bronze pieta for the church of Nemours. Source Bénézit and Dictionary of Sculptors of the XIX°

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