Bronze The Warrior Child By Ferville Suan

Bronze subject representing the warrior child, signed on the embankment: Ferville Suan. Bronze mounted on its original base in antique red marble. Very rare subject and a superb patina.

Charles Georges Ferville-Suan born January 16, 1847 in Le Mans (Sarthe) and died in the same city on December 11, 1925 is a French sculptor.

Adopted son of the painter Charles Suan, Charles Georges Ferville-Suan studied at the School of Fine Arts in Paris in the studio of the sculptor François Jouffroy. He makes medallions, statuettes in plaster, marble or bronze. He exhibited at the Salon from 1872, and until 1909. He was a member of the Society of French Artists. In September 1878, he married the landscape painter Marie Erneste Laveille (born in 1852 in Barbizon), daughter of the painter Eugène Laveille.