Bronze XIX ème, Louis Vidal ( l'Aveugle ), Stag

Epoque: XIX th century, Bronze in perfect condition with marble base also in perfect condition.

Signed: signed in bronze Vidal (l'Aveugle)

Subject: Stag

Dimensions: Length 35 cm - Height 18 cm - Depth: 23 cm. - Weight 13,5 Kg

Biography:

Louis VIDAL "L'aveugle" dit NAVATEL 1831 / 1892

Louis VIDAL was an animal sculptor born in Nîmes on December 6, 1831 and died in Paris on May 7, 1892. French school.

He studied anatomy but became blind around 1853, which prevented him from pursuing this path. He studied with animal sculptors Antoine-Louis Barye and Pierre Louis Rouillard and became an animal sculptor himself, replacing sight with touch.

This ability enabled him to create portraits; he perceived the shape of faces by touching them and sculpted them in clay. Louis Vidal worked with Alfred Barye, son of his master Antoine-Louis Barye. He made his debut at the 1859 Salon. He was awarded a third-class medal in 1859. According to his teacher Stanislas Lami, Barye retouched all his works, which are often signed "Vidal aveugle". Many of them were bought by Princess Mathilde, the Rotschilds and a few other collectors.

He became a professor of modeling in 1888 at the École Braille in Paris.

Louis Vidal died on May 9, 1892 at the Quinze-Vingts hospital in Paris.

Source Bénézit

Source Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs - Les Bronzes du XIX°

Musées:

Musée d'Angoulème: Cerf Blessé - Musée de Bordeaux: Dying Stag - Musée de Clamency: Levrette - Musée de Dreux :Lion - Musée de Montpellier - Musée de Nantes - Musée de Nimes :Bull and Dying Stag - Musée d'Orléans etc.

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

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