25\? discount until 30.11 - "La Science", Bronze à Patine Brune Signed Mathurin Moreau

25% discount until 30.11 - New price: €2,175

La Science, brown patina bronze signed on the terrace and titled on a cartel.
- Cartel on the side: "To the director of the familistère de Guise schools, the child education staff and former students". -

Conceived by Jean Baptiste André Godin, creator of the famous stove brand, the familistère de Guise was an extraordinary social experiment. Inspired by the Phalanstère and the theories of Charles Fourier, the familistère was designed to improve workers' lives and combat the impoverishment of the working population.
This bronze, a gift to the Director of Schools, is a fine tribute to the spirit of the familistère: through science, which enlightens the world with its knowledge, human beings can free themselves from social determinism.
This bronze subject by Mathurin Moreau is unusual on the art market. It is a synthesis of another, more widespread subject, Science and Genius.

-M.Pierre Grignon Dumoulin, expert to the Amiens Court of Appeal

Height: 55 cm

Mathurin MOREAU (1822-1912),
He was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1841, where he studied with Jules Ramey and Auguste Dumont. He won the second Prix de Rome in 1842 with Diodème enlevant le Palladium. He made his debut at the Salon des artistes français in 1848, where he won acclaim for his statue L'Élégie.

He won a second-class medal at the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris, followed by a first-class medal in 1878. In 1897, he was awarded a medal of honor at the Salon, of which he became a member of the jury during the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris. He exhibited a white marble bust of Ishmael, son of Abraham and Hagar (after his 1875 bust in Carrara marble and bronze, entitled Ishmael, candeur).

Between 1849 and 1879, Mathurin Moreau collaborated with theVal d'Osne art foundry and, as a shareholder, became one of its directors. But, observes Pierre Kjellberg, "the reign of Napoleon III was also the reign of mantel trimmings, and these hitherto rare sets multiplied and often appeared in the catalogs of bronze publishers": Mathurin Moreau's Liseuse was part of this craze3. The artist also supplied models to the Compagnie des bronzes de Bruxelles and exhibited at the Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie in the 1880s.

The town hall in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.
In 1880, the artist was awarded a prize in a competition to erect an allegorical monument to La Défense de Paris at the Courbevoie traffic circle (the original traffic circle for the La Défense district), but the commission went to Louis-Ernest Barrias.

From 1879 until his death, Mathurin Moreau was elected mayor of the 19th arrondissement of Paris - created in 1860 after the annexation of the communes of Belleville and La Villette - where rue Priestley was renamed avenue Mathurin-Moreau by decree of July 16, 1912. The satirical magazine

He died on February 14, 1912 at his home at 15, passage du Monte Negro in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. His funeral took place at the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church in Belleville, and he was buried in the Lilas cemetery.

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