The Timpani Dancer Justin Chrysostome Sanson Roma

Rare model of the timbale dancer founder Ledentu brothers active from 1874 to 1951. This foundry was founded at the end of the 19th century for the great artists of the moment. Normally we find this model with a height of 73cm. There is a period hole on the base to fix the work. Winner of the Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1861, he rubbed shoulders with a number of artists with whom he maintained friendships among whom we find sculptors (such as Louis Breitel, Just Becquet, Jean-André Delorme, etc.), musicians (Jules Massenet), architects (Louis Boitte, Jean Herbault, etc.) or painters (Henri-Charles Daudin, Paul Baudouin, In 1852, Justin-Chrysostome Sanson was a student at the School of Fine Arts in Paris in the workshop of François Jouffroy. In 1861 he won the Grand Prix de Rome for his bas-relief Ulysses bringing Chryséis back to his father, and became a resident of the Villa Medici for five years, completing his training among the works of Antiquity. the patina of the bronze is very beautiful.