Bas-relief In Bronze Signed Le Barrias Arranged On Its Marble Base

Bronze bas-relief signed LE Barrias (1841 - 1905) on its marble base 19th century bronze and marble sculpture signed by its creator. Bronze representing a seated woman, leaning on her desk reading a book.
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Louis-Ernest Barrias born April 13, 1841 in Paris and died February 4, 1905 in the same city, is a French sculptor. Entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris in 1858, first with the sculptor Jules Cavelier and the painter Léon Cogniet, he abandoned painting to focus on sculpture under the direction of François Jouffroy. Second Prix de Rime in 1861 for Chryséis returned to his father by Ulysses, he won the Prix de Rome in 1865 with the founding of Marseille and was hired on the construction site of the Paris Opera. He produced many sculpted works, most of them in marble. In 1881, he was awarded a medal of honor for fine arts and appointed knight of the legion of honor in 1878, then promoted to officer in 1881 and commander in 1900. The artist replaced Auguste Dumont at the institute in 1884 , then succeeds Jules Cavelier as professor at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, where; among his most notable pupils, one counts Victor Ségoffin, Charles Despiau and Paul Landowski.