Joan Of Arc François Rude 1784-1855 Patinated Bronze

Jeane D'Arc listening to her voices.François Rude 1784-1855 Pretty bronze reduction signed on the terrace, light brown patina, slight wear, sand cast around 1850. Attention to detail, great finesse of the carving, gilded wooden base repainted to the smallest jar. Commissioned on November 4, 1845 by decree of the Ministry of the Interior for the series of statues of Illustrious Women placed on the terraces of the Luxembourg Gardens. Block of marble acquired on January 31, 1849. Paid on March 8, 1852. Salon of 1852, no. 1530. Jardin du Luxembourg, 1852-1871. Sheltered in the Louvre during the siege of Paris on January 25, 1871. Placed in the Luxembourg Gardens for an indefinite period. Brought back to the Louvre on February 10, 1873, restored but not listed in the inventory on that date. Inventoried for regularization in 1970. Deposited at the Museum of Fine Arts of Dijon, from 1971 to July 25, 1990.Mussé du Louvres Born in Dijon, in 1784 at no. 5 of the current rue François-Rude, near the current square Francois Rude, he is the son of a blacksmith. François Rude learned drawing in this city with Francois Devosge and was supported by the assistant curator of the Dijon Museum of Fine Arts, patron and ardent Bonapartist, Louis Fremiet, whose daughter, Sophie, he would later marry. In 1809, he moved to Paris and was admitted to the École supérieure des beaux arts in the studio of Pierre Cartellier, obtaining the Prix de Rome of 1812 for his Aristaeus lamenting the loss of his bees. Contemporary political circumstances mean that he will never be able to benefit from the stay at the Academy of Frace in Rome at the Villa Medici relating to the prize. In 1815, after the fall of the first empire, he moved to Brussels at the creation of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, to join his in-laws, and where he placed himself in the service of the architect Chares Vander Straeten. He executed nine bas reliefs for one of the pavilions of the Palais de Tervuren, which has now disappeared but of which casts remain3. There he married the painter Sophie Fremiet, with whom he had a son, Amédée, who died in 1830. He carried out official commissions from King William I of the Netherlands by participating in several renovation and decoration works of royal palaces, castles and monuments of Brussels. He then returned to Paris in 1827 where he gradually moved from neoclassicism to romanticism. After 1827, he produced a statue of the Virgin for the Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais church in Paris and a statue of Mercury (Paris, Louvre museum). In 1833, he was decorated with the Legion of Honor and obtained a commission for a high relief for the arc de trionphe de l'Etoile: The Departure of the Volunteers of 1792, commonly called La Marseillaise, his most famous work which contributed greatly to to his fame. At the same time, he sculpted in marble the Little Neapolitan Fisherman playing with a turtle (Paris, Louvre museum). The success of his Marseillaise allowed him to open his own workshop and thus train students, including his nephew Paul Cabet. He received several orders for public monuments in honor of great people, Louis Monge (1849), Antoine Joseph Bertrand (1852), Marechal Ney, He also had some private and religious orders. In 1835, François Rude took over the statue of Cato of Utica reading the Phaedo before killing himself begun by Jean-Baptiste Roman, the last work of the artist who died that same year 1835. Rude completed the statue in 1840. In 1839 , the couple adopted Martine Cabet, Sophie's orphan niece, who posed for several of their works. She will be the future wife of their nephew Paul Cabet. From 1852, he devoted the last three years of his life to two sculptures whose subjects he chose himself to respond to commissions from free subjects from his hometown of Dijon: Hébé and the Eagle of Jupiter and The Dominant love of the world, in which the artist reconnects with a certain neoclassicism and which constitute his artistic testament. François Rude received a medal of honor at the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris. He died the same year and was buried in the Montparnasse cemetery in the 14th arrondissement of Paris,