Bronze bust sculpture Victor Portevin Reims Chavalliaud Bingen 19th century foundry

Bronze sculpture with brown patina representing the bust of Victor Portevin*, magistrate of Reims, signed L. Chavalliaud** and dated 1887, also signed by Bingen Fondeur***, on a marble base, 19th century.

This bust is in good condition and of very fine quality. Signed on the back, see photos.
A similar bronze bust (by the same founder) is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims (inventory888.29.1).
Please note: repairs to the marble base (see red arrows), slight age-related wear, see photos.
* Victor PORTEVIN (1821-1886) :
Avoué (1854), former avoué près le Tribunal de Reims (1880), juge au Tribunal civil de Reims (1886), deputy mayor (1907). Father of Hippolyte Portevin (1854 - 1935), French architect and civil engineer.

** Léon Joseph Chavalliaud (1858-1919)
French sculptor. Léon Chavalliaud was an apprentice model-maker at the Bulteau workshop in Reims. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris on a city scholarship. There, he studied under Alexandre Falguière, François Jouffroy in 1878, and above all Louis Auguste Roubaud. After working on the caryatids for the courtyard façade of Reims town hall in 1880, he gained a reputation for his busts. Chavalliaud was awarded the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1886 for Tobie retirant le poisson de l'eau. The 1891 Salon won him a medal; the 1892 Salon rewarded his Monument de la fédération bretonne-angevine and his statuette of the young Melchior de Polignac. He travelled to Italy to study the works of the great masters, then left for England in 1892, where he lived for fifteen years in the Brixton district of London. He sculpted the tombs of celebrities, monuments for the cathedrals of Lincoln, Ely, Winchester and Chichester, and numerous chapels and churches. Appreciated for the exact likeness of his subjects, he was much in demand to execute busts of personalities such as William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Roberts and others. He returned to Reims in 1907. Here, he sculpted the statue of Dom Pérignon. This work, preserved in Hautvillers Abbey, won a medal at the 1910 Salon des Artistes Français. In his hometown, he made numerous busts of prominent figures, including that of Dr. Langlet, mayor of Reims during the First World War.
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*** Pierre Bingen (1842-1908)
was a French foundryman of the second half of the 19th century. After training with goldsmiths, he practiced lost-wax casting. He worked for Ernest Barrias, Carrier-Belleuse, Jean Carriès, Charles Cordier, Jean Dampt, Alexandre Falguière, Jean-Antoine Injalbert, Ernest Meissonier, Jean-Désiré Ringel d'Illzach, Auguste Rodin, Théodore Rivière and Jules Dalou. He set up his workshop at 74 rue des Plantes in Paris.
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Dimensions

Base diameter 21 cm
Height 56 cm
Shoulder width 43 cm

ref 810 273

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