"Pillbox Or Small Box In Silver Metal With Woman Decor By émile Dropsy (1848-1923)"
Small box, or pillbox, in silver-plated metal decorated with a woman in a lake landscape with iris. Gold metal interior."Lourdes" engraving at the top left and signature of Émile Dropsy French medalist (1848-1923).
Period around 1900
Dimensions: H 5 x L 3.5 cm
Émile Dropsy (1848-1923)
Son and grandson of a marble worker, abandoned the trade of his ancestors, and did his apprenticeship as a metal engraver with Lemoine, based in Paris quai Jemmapes, while taking drawing lessons. Having become an excellent engraver, he decided to start his own business. At the age of 30, he modeled a number of medals under the direction of Ferdinand Levillain. he devoted many years to the creation of religious medals, striving to make them well and to make them pleasant, in accordance with the taste of the purchasing public, in order to be able to live. Giving free rein to his creative freedom, he executed works which were exhibited around 1900, at the French Artists, and earned him a third, then a second medal. It is in these works that the artist gave the best of himself. He took up religious subjects, but to make them real works of art, and no longer souvenir medals. Nature was also a favorite theme for him. In the middle of the landscapes he placed human beings but also domestic animals. He had no principles, but gave free rein to his sensitivity, and only cared about being sincere.
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