Sculpture - A Find In Pompeii By Hippolyte Alexandre Moulins (1832-1884) - Bronze

Bronze sculpture representing a young man, the excavator of excavations in Pompeii by Hippolyte Alexandre Moulins .
The sculptor depicts a naked boy, performing a dance of joy, with one leg raised, who emerges victorious from his excavations with a Roman statuette .
Its nude pose mirrors that of the statuette itself, possibly indicating that the statue represents the excavator imagining itself in the pose of the original statuette .
Signature of the sculptor "MOULINS" on the base .
Cast iron stamp of " Thiébaut Frères Paris" .
Brown patina .
Period XIX th century .
Perfect conditions .

The statue won a medal at the Paris Salon of 1864 and became his most famous work .
The life-size original was purchased by the French government for 7,000 francs and exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in 1867.
Today it stands on a high pedestal in the Musée d'Orsay alongside the "Cockfight Winner" by Alexandre Falguière .