Fortune By Louis Julien Franceschi (1825-1893)

Fortune By Louis Julien Franceschi (1825-1893) Very beautiful bronze presented at the 1886 salon representing an Allegory of Fortune. In the guise of a beautiful young woman dressed in a drapery, she holds a cornucopia and rests on a winged wheel symbols of fortune. Our statue produced at the end of the 19th century from a very beautiful old cast iron is signed on the left side J. FRANCESCHI. Height 75 cm Biography French sculptor by naturalization, born into a family of Italian origin in Bar-sur-Aube (Aube) on January 11, 1825, died in Paris on September 1, 1893. Pupil, from the age of 16, of the famous sculptor François Rude , began at the Salon of 1848. We owe him many achievements, notably in Paris where he produced La Pensée on the facade of the Opéra Garnier, La Peinture in the Luxembourg garden, or the tomb of Miecislas Kamieński in the Montmartre cemetery. We also owe him certain sculptures in the Louvre Palace: Mars in the Cour Carrée, History on the Flore wing, Science in the Pavillon des Etats and the pediment of the Pavillon de Flore1. Two of his statues, Antoine-François Fourcroy and Marie-Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, adorn the facades of Paris City Hall. He also executed busts of many of his contemporaries, including Jacques Offenbach (funeral monument in Paris at the Montmartre cemetery), Émile Augier, Eugène Delacroix, Charles Gounod or Victor Massé.