Moreau Hippolyte - Woman With An Angel In Carrara Marble

Very beautiful Carrara marble statue representing a woman with an angel.
Charming and graceful subject, sculpted in detail.

Hippolyte Moreau, born in Dijon in 1832 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1926, is a French sculptor. François, known as Hippolyte, is the second son of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Joseph Moreau and trained in his father's studio. With his two brothers Mathurin and Auguste, he moved to Paris to follow the teaching of François Jouffroy at the École des Beaux-Arts.

From 1863 to 1914, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français where he sent decorative subjects most often inspired by the 18th century. He won a medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1878 and another at the Universal Exhibition of 1900.

He mainly produced medium-sized works and decorative or everyday objects: vases, statuettes, letter openers, bronze, babbitt or pewter pocket emptiers. He is the author of the statue of Alexis Claude Clairaut (1880) on one of the facades of the Hôtel de Ville de Paris, rue de Lobau. Most of his works are kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon.