Charles Gabriel Sauvage Known As "lemire" - Angelot With The Arc - 19th Century Bronze

L 'Angelot à l'Arc Bronze with brown patina
The Angelot is seated on a riprap covered with a drape.
Quadrangular plinth with yellow Siena marble projection.

Signed "Lemire"
This model created by the artist for the Salon of 1814.
The quality of the bronze is distinguished by a great precision in the carving of the hair indicating a cast from the beginning of the 19th century.

Bénézit, Les Bronzes au 19è siècle, Dictionary of sculptors by Pierre Kjellberg.

High. bronze: 42 cm
high. total: 51 cm

Charles Gabriel SAUVAGE dit "LEMIRE"

French sculptor born April 24, 1741 in Lunéville (Meurthe et Moselle), died in 1827 in Paris.
Son of a founder, Lemire worked very young, in 1759, in the modeling workshops of the Niderviller factory. He was in charge of it for about twenty years.
He exhibited in Paris from 1808 to 1819. He won a medal in 1808.
He is quoted by L'Innocence, marble for the Ministry of the Interior, now at the Museum of Tours and Le genie de la Poésie at the Museum of Marseille.
The Louvre keeps him: Love putting a string to its bow.