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Ferdinand Moutier, Pair Of Terracotta Bas-reliefs Signed And Dated 1887, Showing A Couple
A pair of terracotta bas-reliefs, each set against a burr ash veneer panel highlighted with two ebony fillets.
These bas-reliefs depict a couple, the woman showing her right profile, the man, symmetrically, his left. Each bears the signature under the shoulder: "F. Moutier 87" for "Ferdinand Moutier 1887", to which is added for the man: "s. "Of recognition" for "sign of recognition."
Each sculpted portrait is imbued with great sensitivity and humanity, much like the entire oeuvre of Ferdinand Moutier (1831-1903), a painter and sculptor who settled on the Côte Fleurie, between Honfleur and Cabourg. Karl Laurent, director of the Villa Montebello Museum in Trouville-sur-Mer, which dedicated an exhibition to him in 2019, said of him: "You sense that he doesn't distance himself, like an artist who paints a landscape or observes a scene from the outside: he belongs to the same world as the people he represents."
But here, there are no ordinary people or anecdotes, much less scenes of everyday Norman life, but rather friends, it seems, whom Ferdinand Moutier immortalizes in medal-like profiles.
Very good condition.
Panels: 38 cm x 25 cm.
Ferdinand Moutier was a painter and sculptor born in Rouen in 1831 and died in 1903. A student of Dupré and Lecomte, he exhibited at the Paris Salon. Initially a sculptor, the artist gradually abandoned clay to devote himself to canvas and brush, but while retaining his preferred subject: the everyday lives of ordinary people.
These bas-reliefs depict a couple, the woman showing her right profile, the man, symmetrically, his left. Each bears the signature under the shoulder: "F. Moutier 87" for "Ferdinand Moutier 1887", to which is added for the man: "s. "Of recognition" for "sign of recognition."
Each sculpted portrait is imbued with great sensitivity and humanity, much like the entire oeuvre of Ferdinand Moutier (1831-1903), a painter and sculptor who settled on the Côte Fleurie, between Honfleur and Cabourg. Karl Laurent, director of the Villa Montebello Museum in Trouville-sur-Mer, which dedicated an exhibition to him in 2019, said of him: "You sense that he doesn't distance himself, like an artist who paints a landscape or observes a scene from the outside: he belongs to the same world as the people he represents."
But here, there are no ordinary people or anecdotes, much less scenes of everyday Norman life, but rather friends, it seems, whom Ferdinand Moutier immortalizes in medal-like profiles.
Very good condition.
Panels: 38 cm x 25 cm.
Ferdinand Moutier was a painter and sculptor born in Rouen in 1831 and died in 1903. A student of Dupré and Lecomte, he exhibited at the Paris Salon. Initially a sculptor, the artist gradually abandoned clay to devote himself to canvas and brush, but while retaining his preferred subject: the everyday lives of ordinary people.
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