Large Bronze By Henri Vidal(1864-1918):

Exceptional large salon bronze representing fortune and a young child , of great quality with its original brown patina and gold highlights .signed on the terrace .
A pupil of Mathurin MOREAU , a specialist in plaster busts and statues , few bronzes are known of him , hence the rarity and extreme quality of excecution of our specimen , which was exhibited at the 1899 Paris salon .

Henri Vidal, born May 3, 1864 in Charenton-le-Pont^[1] and died January 11, 1918 in Le Cannet^[2],[3],[4], was a French sculptor.

Biography Cain coming to kill his brother Abel (1896), Paris, Tuileries Gardens.

Henri Vidal was a pupil of Mathurin Moreau^[5].

Works in public collections

• Aix-en-Provence, musée Granet: Le Paysan du Danube.
• Paris, jardin des Tuileries: Caïn venant de tuer son frère Abel, 1896, marble statue, 195 × 90 × 120 cm^[3]. The plaster model was exhibited at the 1894 Salon (n^o 3677)^[6].

Distinctions The following information comes mainly from Stéphane Richemond (pref. Michèle Lefrançois), Les salons des artistes coloniaux, followed by a Dictionnaire des sculpteurs, Paris, les Éd. de l'Amateur, 2003, p. 125 (ISBN 2-85917-395-1).

• Salon des artistes français:
  • 1884, honorable mention ;
  • 1890 : médaille de 3^e classe ;
  • 1892 : prix du Salon décerné par le Conseil supérieur des beaux-arts ;
  • 1892 : médaille de 2^e classe ;
  • 1900 : médaille de 1^re classe.
• Exposition universelle de 1900 : médaille d'argent.
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