Bronze Of Cupid By Lucienne Heuvelmans

This charming bronze representation of Cupid, placed on a marble base, no doubt points to his next target with his finger, his arrow in the other hand. The work was sculpted by Lucienne Heuvelmans during her stay in Rome and cast by the Barbedienne house in 1919. Born in Paris in 1881, Lucienne Heuvelmans, daughter of a Belgian draftsman and cabinetmaker, was a sculptor, painter and illustrator. In 1911, she was the first woman to win a Grand Prix de Rome, the competition for which had been open to women since 1903. After taking evening classes in sculpture and passing through the girls' section of the National School of Arts decorative, where she entered in October 1897; she was admitted to the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1904 where she became a pupil of the sculptors Laurent Marqueste, Emmanuel Hannaux and Denys Puech. In 1914, she left the Villa Médicis, where she had been a resident since 1912, and returned to Paris, where she was appointed drawing teacher in the schools of the City of Paris. She regularly participated in exhibitions at the Salon des artistes français where she obtained an honorable mention in 1907, then a bronze medal in 1921, as well as at the Salon des artistes décorateurs at the Grand Palais between 1926 and 1933. Lucienne Heuvelmans received the insignia of knight of the Legion of Honor in 1926 under the Ministry of Fine Arts. From 1924 to 1926, she honors orders for the Sèvres factory. In the early 1930s, she moved to Brittany in Saint-Cast, where she died in 1944 before being buried in Père-Lachaise. She specialized in particular in ancient mythology and religious art. Some of his works can be found at the Palais Bourbon, the Manufacture de Sèvres, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and in various churches.

Sources: Franny Tachon; Nella Buscot; Wikipedia