Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) Bronze Sculpture

BRONZE "YOUNG WOMAN AT THE ROCK" BY MATHURIN MOREAU (1822-1912) Bronze two patina representing a young woman with long hair sitting on a rock, signed on the base "math. Moreau". Old cast iron. Nineteenth period. Mathurin Moreau, born in Dijon on November 18, 1822 and died in Paris (19th arrondissement) on February 14, 1912, is a French sculptor, renowned for his decorative sculptures. Biography [edit | modify the code] La rue Monge in Dijon. Mathurin Moreau, who owes his first name to his paternal grandfather, a locksmith in Dijon, was born at 7, rue Monge (then still called rue Saint-Jean) from the marriage of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Joseph Moreau and Anne Marianne Richer, originally from Besançon where his father, Mathieu Richer, is also a sculptor. His brothers Hippolyte and Auguste are also sculptors. He was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1841 in the workshops of Jules Ramey and Auguste Dumont. He won the second prize in Rome in 1842 with Diodemus removing the Palladium. He began at the Salon of French artists in 1848 and stood out there with the statue L'Élégie. He obtained a second class medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 in Paris, then a first class medal in 1878. In 1897, he was crowned with a medal of honor at the Salon of which he became a member of the jury during the Exposition Universal of 1900 in Paris. He then exhibited a white marble bust representing Ishmael, son of Abraham and Hagar (after his bust in Carrara marble and bronze from 1875, entitled: Ismaël, candeur). Between 1849 and 1879, Mathurin Moreau collaborated with the Val d'Osne art foundry and, as a shareholder, became one of its administrators, but, observes Pierre Kjellberg, “the reign of Napoleon III was also that of fireplace fittings. , and these hitherto very rare sets are multiplying and often appear in the catalogs of bronze publishers ”: Mathurin Moreau's Reader is part of this enthusiasm. The artist also supplied models to the Compagnie des bronzes de Bruxelles and exhibited at the Central Union of Fine Arts Applied to Industry in the 1880s. The town hall of the 19th arrondissement of Paris. In 1880, the artist received a bonus during the competition for the erection of an allegorical monument of La Défense de Paris at the Courbevoie roundabout (roundabout at the origin of the Defense district), but it was Louis-Ernest Barrias was awarded the order. From 1879 and until his death, Mathurin Moreau was elected mayor of the 19th arrondissement of Paris - created in 1860 after annexation of the municipalities of Belleville and La Villette - where the rue Priestley would take the name of avenue Mathurin-Moreau under of the decree of July 16, 1912. The satirical review Les Hommes Today devotes its n ° 183 to him, the portrait-charge drawn by Henri Demare on the cover showing him wearing the tricolor scarf and pointing at an allegorical statue of the law whose base crushes the clergy, "an allusion to his liberal socialist opinions turned towards free thought". He celebrates many weddings: the picture painted by Henri Gervex in 1884 and hung in the marriage hall of the town hall represents Mathurin Moreau celebrating the civil marriage of his son. He was named Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1865 and promoted to officer of the same order in 1885. He died on February 14, 1912 in his home at 15, Passage du Montenegro in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. His funeral took place at the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church in Belleville and he was buried in the Lilas cemetery .... https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathurin_Moreau