Rare Daphne Lamp - Isidore De Rudder (wolfers Edition)

Artistic bronze lamp representing Daphne. Designed by Isidore De Rudder (1855-1943) and edited by Wolfers father and son. Belgian School.
Work represented in La Sculpture en Belgique à partir de 1830, Tome II Constant-De Vos, Louvain, 2006, p. 1109. Isidore De Rudder (1855-1943) De Rudder trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels from 1869 to 1879 (Academy of which he became professor from 1911 to 1915 and from 1919 to 1926) as well as in the workshop of Eugène Simonis. In 1880 he obtained the Prix de l'Académie de Belgique which enabled him to travel to Germany, England and France. In 1882 he received the second prize from Rome. He also created models for the silversmith Philippe Wolfers who had been his pupil, of which this lamp is part.