Hiolin - Important Bronze Sculpture "wolf"

Important bronze statue, signed Hiolin.

The statue bears a plaque 'Au Loup !!, par Hiolin et Hors Concours' and an additional plaque 'SALON 1888, ACQUIS par La VILLE DE PARIS'.

A young shepherd and his dog chasing a wolf, a sheep killer.

A magnificent sculpture with strong emotions.

Louis-Auguste Hiolin, born in 1846 in Septmonts and died in 1910 in Silly-la-Poterie, is a French sculptor.

Hiolin attended the Soissons drawing school, then moved to Paris where he worked with Aimé Perray in 1864, and became a student of François Jouffroy at the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1865. Viollet-le-Duc employed him for the restoration of the Château de Pierrefonds until 1870.

After the war of 1870, he completed his studies at the Beaux-Arts and made his debut at the Salon in 1874; he would send his works there until 1904. He became a member of the Society of French Artists in 1885. He was appointed professor of drawing and modeling at the Écoles de la Ville de Paris. Louis-Auguste Hiolin is the author of the decoration of the Notre-Dame-de-Consolation chapel in Paris, which he completed almost entirely. He notably sculpted the War Memorial of 1870 (1901) in Soissons, and the Monument to Racine as a child (1910) in La Ferté-Milon.

He died in May 1910 in Silly-la-Poterie.