Marble Bust Signed And Dated, France, 19th Century

François Félix Roubaud (1825-1876) - Marble bust signed and dated 1855. Marble bust representing a bearded notable, dressed in a three-piece suit and a coat draped over his shoulders. The slightly turned attitude and upward gaze give the whole a solemn dignity. The work on the face, of great naturalistic precision, is fully in line with the aesthetics of the Second Empire, where the sculpted portrait occupied a prominent place among the bourgeois and political elites. The work is signed "FF Roubaud, Paris 1855". François-Félix Roubaud (1825–1876), trained in Lyon and then in Paris in the studio of James Pradier, regularly participated in the Parisian Salons from 1853. He is notably the author of numerous busts, medallions and public decorations, as well as the group "Eurydice bitten by a snake" (1859) and the sculpted decoration of the Louvre between 1855 and 1857. This bust can be compared to the "marble bust" mentioned in the catalog of the Universal Exhibition of 1855. wear from use.