Adrien GAUDEZ 1845/1902, Bronze 55 cm, Pierrot, 19th century

Adrien GAUDEZ 1845/1902, Bronze XIX ème, Pierrot

19th century, in excellent condition.

Signed: Adrien GAUDEZ, 19th century artist, referenced and highly regarded,

The work of art: Pierrot les poches vides
Dimensions: total height: 53 cm, width: 24 cm, depth: 12 cm

Biography:
Adrien Etienne GAUDEZ 1845 / 1902

Adrien Étienne Gaudez, born in Lyon on February 9, 1845 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on January 23, 1902, was a French sculptor.
Gaudez studied with François Jouffroy at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1862. He made his debut at the Salon 2 years later.
A prisoner of war in Magdeburg during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, he was responsible for the monument to the French prisoners of war in that city.
He is also the author of Florian d'Alès, the monument to the dead of Remiremont, etc.
Few of his bronzes were exhibited at the Salon

Source Bénézit and Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs - Bronze du XIX° - Pierre Kjelberg - Editions de l'amateur

Works :

Canada :
Québec, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec: Le Faucheur, 1899, bronze.
Le Forgeron, 1899 (?), bronze.

France :
Alès: Monument to Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, 1896. The top statue and bronze cartouche were sent to the Vichy regime for melting in 1942, as part of the mobilization of non-ferrous metals.
Clermont-Ferrand, Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot: Actéon, circa 1898, bronze.
Neuilly-sur-Seine:
Hébé, statue;
Monument à Parmentier, 1888, sent for casting under the Vichy regime in 1942, as part of the mobilization of non-ferrous metals. The statue was replaced in 1982 by an identical replica by sculptor Andre Lavaysse, based on a bronze reduction kept at the town hall;
Monument à Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, 1897, the statue was sent for casting under the Vichy regime, as part of the mobilization of non-ferrous metals. In 1981, the municipality replaced it on another site (Ile de Puteaux) with an 18th-century stone statue of unknown origin.

Paris :
lycée Condorcet, cour du collège: L'Enseignement, 1883, limestone group.
Musée d'Orsay: Femme ailée au milieu des roseaux, marble statue, Alfred Chauchard legacy.
Petit Palais: Lully enfant, 1885, plaster statue.
Remiremont: Monument aux morts de 1870, 18928.

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Sculpture on view at our gallery in L'Isle sur la Sorgue (France), weekends.
Free shipping within France.
And on estimate for abroad

A1797

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