"Morning Star - Art Nouveau Silver Bronze - Adrien Etienne Gaudez"
Morning Star - Art Nouveau silvered bronze - Adrien Etienne GaudezPatinated bronze sculpture, Art Nouveau, representing a mythological woman in a fluid dress holding a star in the air.
Signed "A. GAUDEZ" on the sphere and titled "ETOILE DU MATIN par A.Gaudez
Hors concours" in a cartouche on the front
H: 38.5 cm
The star is missing
Adrien Étienne Gaudez - (1845 - 1902)
French sculptor, born in Lyon on February 9, 1845 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on January 23, 1902.
Pupil of François Jouffroy at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1862.
Prisoner of war in Magdeburg during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, we owe him in particular the monument in memory of the French prisoners of this city.
Other works
Québec (Canada) Musée des beaux-arts du Québec
Neuilly sur Seine:
Monument to Parmentier - 1888,
Monument to Jean Rodolphe Perronet - 1897,
Paris
L'Enseignement (1883) at the Lycée Condorcet
Winged woman among reeds - statue in marble - Musée d'Orsay
Lully child (1885) - plaster - Petit Palais
Alès
Clermont Ferrand
Remiremont - Monument to the dead of 1870
Other non-localized works
Related literature:
Pierre Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle, dictionary of sculptors, Paris , Les éditions de l'Amateur, 1987, pp. 346-348
Le Magazine de PROANTIC
TRÉSORS Magazine
Rivista Artiquariato
