Bronze XIX ème, 66 Cm, Lucienne Signoret Ledieu, Diane Chasseresse à La Source

Epoque : XIX th century, Bronze in perfect condition, bronze with beautiful patina, with a rotating base.

Signed : Signed in bronze, artist referenced and side, with Founder's stamp.

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Subject : " Diane chasseresse à la source "

Dimensions : Height : 66 cm, Width : 26 cm, Depth : 26 cm, Weight : 16 Kg

Biography :

Lucienne SIGNORET LEDIEU 1853 / 1904

Lucienne Signoret-Ledieu, born Marie Lucie Ledieu in Nevers (Nièvre) on August 10, 1853 and died on February 28, 1904 in Arcueil, was a French sculptor.

Born into a working-class background in Nevers, Marie Lucie Ledieu became a pupil of sculptor Jean Gautherin (1840-1890). She was a member of the women's committee of the Union centrale des arts décoratifs. For the commemoration of Joan of Arc's liberation of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier on November 4, 1429, the town commissioned a statue of her liberator.

Her bust Le Soir earned her a letter of praise from Alexandre Dumas fils.

She made her debut at the 1878 Salon. Honorable mentions in 1883 and 1886.

Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917), a journalist and writer from Normandy and an art critic, wrote of her, "A great artist, too little known, alas, and who quite simply has the soul of Donatello."

She lived at 72, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques in Paris. In 1876, she married sculptor François Léon Signoret and subsequently affixed his name to hers, "Signoret-Ledieu".

Museums:

Chambéry, Musée des Beaux-Arts: Fileuse, bronze, fonte Thiébaut frères.

Clermont-Ferrand, Musée d'Art Roger-Quilliot: Ruth, 1855.

Dijon, musée des Beaux-Arts: La Fileuse, 1886, bronze, 77 cm.

Nevers, musée municipal Frédéric-Blandin: Buste de femme, patinated plaster on pedestal, 79 × 57 × 37 cm.

Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier: Monument à Jeanne d'Arc, 1902, bronze statue. The pedestal bears the inscription "À Jeanne-d'Arc, libératrice de Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier en 1429".

Vaucouleurs, Hôtel de ville, Musée de l'Imagerie johanique: Joan of Arc as a shepherdess, 1904, bronze statuette.

1889 Universal Exhibition: La Pileuse du Berri, plaster statue.

1900 Universal Exhibition.

Sources:

Bénézit, dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'École française au dix-neuvième siècle. T. I. A-C, 1914-1921 (read online [archive]), p. 256-257.

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

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