Richard Wagner (1813-1888) Terracotta Bust Signed Fernand Cian (1889-1954)

Richard Wagner (1813-1888) terracotta bust on black Belgian marble signed Ferdinand Cian on the edge, bears the words "salon" on the back Fernando Ciancianaini known under the name of Fernand Cian, born in Carrara Italy in 1889 and died in 1954, is a French sculptor of Italian origin. Biography Student of Alexandre Falguière, he worked in Paris in the workshop of Leo Laporte-Blairsy and obtained an honorable mention at the Salon des artistes Français of 1921. He developed a production of pastiches of child busts in the style of the 18th century . He sometimes signed them with the names of famous artists or sometimes with his own name, but often backdated his works: this is the case for a bust of the Duke of Lesdiguières, located in the Louvre Museum, and a bust of a child also in the collections of the Louvre.