Bronze By Henri Honoré Plé (1853-1922) “nymph Resting On A Tree”

Superb bronze with brown patina representing a nymph dressed in a drape resting on a tree trunk with flowers at her feet, all resting on a rotating presentation base and placed on a pedestal in red griotte marble in the Louis XVI style. Signed on the terrace. Of high quality of execution and finesse, this bronze is very decorative. It appears in many museums in Europe. Son of a porcelain painter, student of Mathurin Moreau, Henri Honoré Plé exhibited at the Salon from 1877. He received an honorable mention in 1879. On April 9, 1883, he married Augustine Mathilde Viard, a schoolteacher, at the town hall of the 20th arrondissement. A member of the Society of French Artists, he was part of the Art Nouveau movement and received a bronze medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition. Widowed since December 24, 1904, he died at his home, 11 avenue Parmentier, on January 31, 1922. He was buried the day after in the Père-Lachaise cemetery, in the 92nd division, next to his wife and his father's second wife.