Biscuit Sculpture "the Two Sisters" H. Moreau

Hippolyte Francois MOREAU - "The two sisters" - group in biscuit on base in oven blue and gilded porcelain - signed on the base - Period early twentieth - H: 56cm François dit Hippolyte is the second son of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste-Louis- Joseph Moreau and trained in his father's workshop. With his two brothers Mathurin and Auguste, he moved to Paris to follow the teaching of François Jouffroy at the School of Fine Arts. From 1863 to 1914, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français where he sent decorative subjects most often inspired by the 18th century. He won a medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1878 and another at the Universal Exhibition of 1900. He produced mainly medium-sized works. He is the author of the statue of Alexis Claude Clairaut (1880) on one of the facades of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, rue de Lobau. Most of his works are kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Dijon. Born in Dijon on April 1, 1832, he died at the age of 93 on January 4, 1926.