Woman In Medallion By Hippolyte Moreau, Circa 1900

Elegant woman with a medallion signed Hippolyte Moreau.
Double brown and slightly golden patina.
Circa 1900. French work.

Dimensions:
Height 70 cm
Diameter 27 cm

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Hippolyte Moreau (1832-1926)
Hippolyte François Moreau was a French sculptor famous for his bronze statuettes of young women. Born in 1832 in Dijon, France, the son of the famous sculptor Jean-Baptiste Moreau, he grew up in his father's studio. As a young man, Moreau moved to Paris to continue his studies with François Jouffroy at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, exhibiting for the first time at the Salon des artistes français in 1863 and continuing to exhibit there until 1914. In 1878 and 1900 he won medals for his work – large-scale decorative pieces such as vases and statuettes – at the Universal Exhibition in Paris. Among its notable sculptures is its 1880 statue of the famous French mathematician Alexis Clairaut, which now permanently occupies one of the facades of the Paris City Hall. He died in 1927 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, and today several of his works are collected in the Museum of Fine Arts in Dijon.