"Eugène Marioton – Bronze Summer, The Young Sower"
Summer, the Young SowerOriginal proof in bronze with brown patina signed Marioton, numbered and bearing the stamp of the founder "Siot-Decauville"Eugène Marioton (1854-1933), French sculptor, medalist and engraver
The Siot-Decauville foundry is an art foundry active in Paris at the end of the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century. The Siot-Decauville signature was used between 1865 and 1888.
Height: 29 cm - Width: 11 cm - Depth: 9 cm
Base dimensions: 7 cm x 7.8 cm
Brother of sculptor Claudius Marioton and painter Jean Alfred Marioton, Eugène Marioton trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and entered the 1883 sketch competition with “La Fille de Jephté”. He won 1st prize in the Société libre des beaux-arts competition with his marble bas-relief “Héro et Léandre”. He subsequently participated regularly in the Salon de la Société des artistes français, becoming a member of the jury in 1905 in the sculpture section. He died in 1933.
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