"Hippolyte Moreau – Woman With Child In Alabaster – 20th Century."
Very pretty alabaster sculpture by Hippolyte MOREAU (1832-1927) representing a woman leaning against a low wall topped with a wreath of flowers. She carries her child on her right arm who caresses her face. Very realistic and tender pastoral representation of the “mother and child”. Signed on the base: Hip. MOREAU. Height: 61 cm – weight 35kg. Very good state. Twentieth century. Biography: Hippolyte François Moreau (1832-1927) is the second son of Jean-Baptiste Moreau. He came to work in Paris under the direction of Jouffroy and exhibited his first work at the Salon of 1859. Most of his work includes charming figures of children and young women, mostly of an allegorical nature, where the we often find the same subjects as those of his brother Auguste.