François Rude, Bronze Bust Of Christ And His Crown Of Thorns, Fumière-thiebaut

Magnificent bust of Christ wearing his crown of thorns. Superb brown patina. Our sculpture bears the signature of the sculptor François Rude as well as the stamp of the founder Charles Fumière - Thiébaut frères. François Rude is a French sculptor born in Dijon on January 4, 1784 and died on November 3, 1855 in Paris. He is representative of the transition between Neoclassicism and Romanticism, of which he is one of the Masters. Son of a blacksmith, he learned drawing in Dijon with François Devosge. In 1809, he moved to Paris and was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux Arts in the workshop of Pierre Cartellier. In 1812, he obtained the prize of Rome. In 1815, he moved to Brussels, and entered the service of the architect Charles Vander Straeten. He created bas-reliefs for one of the pavilions of the Tenvuren Palace. He also executed official commissions for King William I of the Netherlands. In 1827, he returned to Paris where he gradually moved from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. In 1833, he was decorated with the Legion of Honor and obtained a high relief commission for the Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile entitled "the departure of the volunteers of 1792", more commonly known as the Marseillaise. The success of this work allowed him to open his own workshop and thus train students including his nephew Paul Cabet. From 1852, he devoted the last three years of his life to two sculptures whose subjects he himself chose to respond to a commission from his hometown of Dijon. In 1855, he obtained a medal of honor at the Universal Exhibition in Paris, he died the same year. Thiébaut brothers is a dynasty of five generations of founders. Charles Fumière, designer at Thiébaut in 1895. In 1919, the Thiébaut company was bought by Charles Fumière with the rights to create works, it operated from 1920 to 1926, after which it ceased all activities stamped for this period: Fumière et cie // Thiébaut freres in Paris. Dimensions of our sculpture, height 38 cm base: 13 cm X 13 cm weight 9 kgs Shipping costs contact us