Bronze Sculpture Titled “fly Away”, Signed Ferville Suan

CHARMING BRONZE "ENVOLE TOI" BY Charles Georges FERVILLE-SUAN (1847-1925) Patinated bronze subject representing a young boy holding a butterfly net in his right hand and a butterfly in his left hand. He is standing on a section of a fluted column resting on an octagonal base titled on the front. Signed behind the right foot.

Charles Georges Ferville-Suan born January 16, 1847 in Le Mans (Sarthe) and died in the same city on December 11, 1925 is a French sculptor. Adopted son of the painter Charles Suan, Charles Georges Ferville-Suan studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of the sculptor François Jouffroy. He made medallions, statuettes in plaster, marble or bronze. He exhibited at the Salon from 1872, and until 1909. He was a member of the Society of French Artists. In September 1878, he married the landscape painter Marie Erneste Laveille (born in 1852 in Barbizon), daughter of the painter Eugène Laveille.