Bacchante Signed Jean-léon Gérôme

Group in gilded and silvered bronze, signed JL GEROME, representing a child (Bacchus) climbing the thyrsus of a bacchante to grab a bunch of grapes. Period late nineteenth, stamp of the founder Siot-Decauville, numbered and monogrammed. Statuette in very good condition. Jean-Léon Gérome (1824/1904) is a sculptor and engraver, but also a famous painter of the 19th century. He entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris in 1842, Paul Delaroche was his training master and his works were exhibited at the Salon from 1847. Impregnated with Orientalism by numerous trips (including Egypt in the company of Bartholdi), he was also a professor at the Institut des Beaux-Arts in 1863. In addition to his numerous awards, he was appointed to the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honor.