A Majolica Group Signed Louis Robert Carrier Belleuse (1848-1913)

Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse (1848 – 1913) is a French painter, sculptor and ceramist, son of the renowned sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, of whom he was a pupil. At the School of Fine Arts in Paris, he took lessons from Gustave Boulanger and Alexandre Cabanel. He received a prize for a painting at the 1881 Salon and was awarded for a sculpture at the 1889 Salon. Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse worked at the Manufacture de Sèvres with his father, who had been its artistic director since 1875. In 1877, he trained in ceramics with Théodore Deck and took part in the Sèvres competition in 1882. He designed models for the Faïencerie de Choisy le Roi, of which he became the artistic director in 1889.