19th century bronze, 51 cm, Jean GAUTHERIN 1840/1890, Young woman with bare breasts

Bronze 19th century, Jean GAUTHERIN 1840/1890, Young Woman with Bare Breasts

Epoque: 19th century, Bronze with lost wax

bronze with very beautiful patina and in excellent condition.

Signed: Jean Gautherin, artist referenced and listed
Subject: Young woman with bare breasts
Dimensions: height: 51 cm, width: 23 cm, depth: 10 cm, - 10 Kg

Biography:
Jean GAUTHERIN 1840 / 1890
Jean Gautherin is a French sculptor born in the hamlet of Savault in the commune of Ouroux-en-Morvan (Nièvre) on December 19, 1840 and died in Paris on July 21, 1890.
Born in the heart of Morvan in a peasant family, Jean Gautherin began to sculpt pieces of wood with his knife in his youth.
His mother, a Morvan wet nurse in Paris, worked for a director of the Salpêtrière hospital. During a trip to Paris, Jean Gautherin's father gave one of his son's works to his wife's boss. Impressed, he offered him a trip to the capital.
Illiterate, Gautherin arrived in Paris and began by studying humanities, then, after a few years, worked in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.
On October 31, 1864, he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studios of Charles Gumery and Auguste Dumont. He made his debut at the Salon of 1865.
He was named a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1878.
In 1879, he took part in the competition for the construction of the Monument to the Republic intended for the Place de la République in Paris. His project was selected for the first round among nearly 80 others, but during the second-level competition, remaining in the running with the project of the brothers Charles and Léopold Morice, it was the latter that the jury chose. He lived at that time at 84, rue d'Assas in Paris.
In 1885, he spent several weeks in Copenhagen, the collector and patron Carl Jacobsen commissioning him to sculpt a portrait of Princess Dagmar, future Tsarina Maria Feodorovna6. A large collection of Gautherin's works is kept in Copenhagen at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, founded by Jacobsen.
He was a member of the "Ninety" committee and was elected member of the sculpture committee.
Some of his torches were cast by the Val d'Osne and adorn buildings or public gardens in Rio de Janeiro. The Tusey and Barbedienne foundries also published his works.
Jean Gautherin died on July 21, 1890 at his home at 2, passage Stanislas in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. His religious funeral took place in his parish Notre-Dame-des-Champs on July 23, 1890 and he was buried in Paris at the Montparnasse cemetery (28th division).
He is described as a talented sculptor, conscientious and modest artist
Source Bénézit and Pierre Kjellberg,

Dictionnaire des sculpteurs : les bronzes du xixe siècle, Éditions de l'Amateur, 1997.

Works in public collections:

Denmark:
Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek:
Paradise Lost, 1883, marble group;
Empress Maria Fedorovna of Russia, 1888, marble statue.

France:
Bonneuil-sur-Marne: Town Hall: Marianne, plaster bust after the marble model of the Paris Town Hall.
Château-Gontier: Mayenne Sub-Prefecture Hotel: La République, 1886, bust.
Compiègne: Saint-Antoine Church: Saint Sébastien, 1876, marble statue.
Lyon: Museum of Fine Arts: Paul Chenavard, painter, plaster.
Nevers:
Town Hall: La République.
Frédéric Blandin Municipal Museum: Madame Gautherin, 1885, patinated plaster.
Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte Cathedral: The Martyrs of Saint Cyr and Saint Julitte, stone bas-relief decorating the high altar.

Paris:
Montmartre Cemetery: Charles Gumery, 1871, marble bust adorning the tomb of Gautherin's master.
Montparnasse Cemetery: Pierre Véron, 1880, bronze bust adorning the tomb of the journalist.
Père-Lachaise Cemetery (4th Division): Simon Marx, 1865, bronze medallion adorning the tomb of the director of the Saint-Antoine hospital.
Boulevard Saint-Germain: Monument to Diderot, 1886, bronze statue.
Town Hall:
La Ville de Paris, 1881, high relief adorning the pediment;
Marianne, marble bust.
5th Arrondissement Town Hall, entrance hall: Le Paradis perdu, 1881, marble group14.
Luxembourg Museum: Le Travail, 1885, bronze, sent to be melted down under the Vichy regime.
Musée d'Orsay:
Clotilde de Surville, 1879, marble statue;
Madame Gautherin, 1889, marble bust.
Parc Monceau: Paradise Lost, 1883.

Pomérols: Fountain of the Republic, 1912, cast iron.
Reims: Museum of Fine Arts: Clotilde de Surville, plaster. Cast in bronze in eight sizes by Barbedienne.
Rungis: Honorary Town Hall: Marianne, terracotta.
Thias: Town Hall: Marianne, 1880, plaster bust.

Monaco:
Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo Casino: decoration of the function room.

Salons and exhibitions
Jean Gautherin won medals at the Salons of 1868, 1870 and 1873.
Salon of French artists:
1876: Saint Sebastian, marble, out of competition;
1879: Young girl with a shell; Clo

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