Bronze 19th Century, Clovis Edmond Masson 1838/1913, Tigers In Family

Period: 19th century, Bronze in perfect condition, bronze with very beautiful patina
Signed: Signed in the bronze, artist referenced and listed

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Subject: "Tigers in family"
Dimensions: Height: 31 cm, Length: 60 cm, Depth: 25 cm, Weight: 16 Kg

Biography:
Clovis Edmond MASSON 1838 / 1913
Animal sculptor born in Paris on March 7, 1838 and died in 1913. Student of Santiago, Antoine Louis Barye and Rouillard, he exhibited at the Salon from 1867 to 1881 and obtained an honorable mention in 1890.
He specialized in animal representation. He most often used plaster, wax or bronze as materials. From 1867, he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon until 1881.
He produced more than fifty works until 1909. Source BenézitPierre Kjellberg, Bronze du xixe siècle, 1994Works in

Museums:
The Château-Thierry museum has his: Chevreuils au débouché. The city of Nîmes has several sculptures by the artist in its municipal museum. The Equestrian Statue of the King of Siam: At the beginning of 1907, King Chulalongkorn of Thailand, known as Rama V, decided to erect a monument to his glory in a vast empty esplanade on which the parliament would soon rise (which would not be completed until 1915).
Rama V embarked for Europe in 1907.
Chulalongkorn had, from the beginning, the idea of erecting an equestrian statue. His visit to the Palace of Versailles, in the spring of 1907, finally convinced him. Like that of Louis XIV, whose statue sits in the courtyard of honor of the palace, Rama V would also leave his mark on Bangkok with his equestrian statue.
It was therefore in France that Rama V had his statue made. In mid-June 1907, the Thai sovereign posed for the sculptor Georges Saulo in the foundry workshops of the Susse brothers, Boulevard de la Madeleine in Paris, while the sculptor Clovis Masson would create the horse intended to hold the statue of the king.

Bronze visible at our gallery in L'Isle sur la Sorgue (France), on weekends.
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