Large 19th Century Bronze, 72 Cm, Jean Jules Samson 1823/1902, The Roman Dancer

Period: 19th century, Lost wax bronze on a bronze base, in excellent condition.
Signed: J. Samson, 19th century artist referenced and side
Subject: The Roman dancer
Dimensions: total height: 72 cm, width: 32 cm, depth: 25 cm, approximately 25 kg

Biography:
Justin Chrysostome SANSON 1833 / 1910
Justin-Chrysostome Sanson born August 9, 1833 in Nemours and died November 1, 1910 in Paris is a French sculptor. He is the main founder of the Nemours castle-museum. Winner of the Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1861, he rubbed shoulders with a number of artists with whom he maintained friendships, including 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, etc.).
Youth and training In 1852, Justin-Chrysostome Sanson was a student at the Paris School of Fine Arts in the studio of François Jouffroy. In 1861 he won the Grand Prix de Rome for his bas-relief Ulysses bringing Chryseis back to his father, and became a resident of the Villa Medici for five years, completing his training among the works of Antiquity. Artistic career Between 1868 and 1883, he created sculptures for the decoration of Parisian monuments such as the Tuileries Palace, the city hall, the Louvre Palace, the Opéra Garnier, and the Saint-François-Xavier church.
For the Amiens courthouse, he sculpted the figures of The Charity of Saint Martin, The Law, Justice, The Law, etc. The most awarded of his works is his Pieta, kept in the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church in Nemours, the bronze of which won a medal at the Salon of 1869, and the marble at the Universal Exhibition of 1878 in Paris.
Justin Sanson was named a knight in the national order of the Legion of Honor by decree of July 26, 18762. He died on November 1, 1910 at his home in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. In 1901, Justin-Chrysostome Sanson created with two other Nemourian artists the Association of the Society of Friends of the Vieux Château in order to save the Château de Nemours from ruin. After restoration, the museum opened its doors on October 18, 1903. Sanson donated part of his works to the museum in 1901, and bequeathed his studio funds to it upon his death in 1910. The Dancer of Saltarelle constitutes the work flagship of this artist. This bronze statue cast by Thiébaut, 168 cm high, exhibited at the Salon in 1866 and placed in the garden of Diane in Fontainebleau, reappeared in bronze reduction under the name of Roman Dancer in 1869. Sanson also created statues for the decoration of the Louvre , the Tuileries, the Opera, the Town Hall, the Saint François Xavier church, for the courthouse of Amiens as well as a bronze pieta for the church of Nemours.
Source Bénézit and Dictionary of 19th Century Sculptors

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