Young Girl With A Goat Paul Silvestre

Imposing bronze by Paul Silvestre foundry Susse brothers. Paul Silvestre was born in Toulouse, where his father was a carpenter. He was admitted in 1905 to the Paris School of Fine Arts in the workshops of Antonin Mercié and Antonin Carlès. Admitted to the second attempt for the Prix de Rome in 1906, he moved up to third in 1907 and first in 1908. In 1911, he was rewarded with the second second grand prize as well as the Desprez prize, then the first second grand prize. of Rome in 1912. He exhibited regularly from 1921 at the Salon of French Artists, where he obtained a gold medal in 1930. Out-of-competition member of the Society of French Artists, he received an honorary diploma for the International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques of 1937 in Paris for his four steles adorning the facade of the Languedoc-Pyrénées pavilion. He was named knight of the Legion of Honor in 1906