Dressing Woman - Georges LaËthier (1875-1955)

Bronze sculpture with very nuanced greenish brown patina
Presented on its original fine black marblebase

France
circa 1905
total height 46 cm

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Biography :
Georges Laëthier (1875-1955) was a French sculptor. It was first with his brother Edmond (1859-1881) painter, that he was introduced to both drawing and painting. Georges Laëthier won the first drawing prize at the age of seventeen at the Lycée Victor-Hugo where he was a student, although his passion was already sculpture.

Encouraged by his mother, very close to him, Laëthier continued his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Besançon. His teacher was the sculptor Just Becquet (1828-1907). He received an honorable mention in 1901 for his "Old Man Drinking from a Spring", a subject which won him a third class medal again in 1903.

Artist from Besançon, Georges Laëthier was very attached to his region, Franche-Comté, from which he honored his famous men by representing them, such as Louis Pasteur, Victor Hugo, Gustave Courbet, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Louis Élisée Cusenier, Hilaire de Chardonnet ...

After First World War came the time for commemorations. In collaboration, most often with Maurice Boutterin (1882-1979) the avant-garde and Parisian architect and sometimes other regional sculptors such as Paul Gasq (1860-1944) and Albert Pasche, Laëthier produced numerous monuments to the dead in Franche-Comté, in particular in Ornans, Frasne, Isle-sur-le-Doubs, Pontarlier, Baume-les-dames and of course in Besançon.