Bust Of Josephine, Bronze - Jef Lambeaux

Josephine, bronze bust mounted on a green marble base, signed Jef Lambeaux. The pedestal has two splinters to the right of the cartel "Josephine by Jef Lambeaux". Bust dimensions: H. 60 x W. 28 x D. 35 cm; base H. 7 x W .23 x D. 23 cm.

Jef Lambeaux (1852-1908), Belgian sculptor and statuary maker
Jef Lambeaux grew up in a family of talented artists. Studied sculpture at the Academy of Antwerp, under the direction of the sculptor Joseph Geefs (1808-1885). In 1877 he received the commission for the Jordaens funerary monument in Putte and for 4 allegorical figures on the consoles of the monumental column of the Paardenmarkt in Antwerp.
Genre scenes and busts. Resides in Paris where he helps J. Van Beers in his painting studio; later he also works with J. Vanaise. In 1880 at the Artistic Circle of Ghent Bacchantes, satyrs, children around a sacred bull. Nude figures become more and more important.
In 1181, Lambeaux moved to Saint-Gilles. Exhibits at the Brussels Salon (1881) Le Baiser et Les Lutters, for which he obtains a gold medal.
Scholarship from the city of Antwerp (1882); travels to Italy. Sculpts bacchantes and fauns.
The gigantic marble relief Les Passions humaines, a fiery and exalted representation, will become his masterpiece. In 1899 the bas-relief was placed in a pavilion specially designed by Victor Horta in the Parc du Cinquantenaire (Brussels).
Jef Lambeaux was a correspondent member of the Academy, and member of the Belgian Academy (1903).

Reference
Illustration taken up again in La sculpture en Belgique à partir de 1830, Tome IV: Heidelberger-Marchant, 2006.