Leon-ernest Drivier (1878-1951)

Leon-Ernest Drivier (1878-1951)
Mythological Scene
Oil on canvas, signed lower right. In a large gilded wooden frame.
H 65 x W 81 cm - H 25 5/8 x W 31 7/8 in.

Léon-Ernest Drivier, born October 22, 1878 in Grenoble and died January 8, 1951 in Paris, is a French sculptor, painter and illustrator.

Born to a glove-making father in Grenoble, Léon Drivier was a student of Louis-Ernest Barrias at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, then worked from 1907 as a practitioner in the studio of Auguste Rodin. He was a friend of the sculptors Auguste de Niederhausern, Gaston Schnegg, Jane Poupelet, Antoine Bourdelle. In 1918, he made the official bust of La France victorieuse. His first period is similar to the neo-romanticism of Rodin, then he moved closer to the neo-classicism of Charles Despiau. His works can be admired in the public collections of the National Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, at the Museum of Grenoble (bronzes, plasters, drawings). He was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1943.