25% discount until 11/30 - Joseph Le GULUCHE - Polychromed Terracotta - 19th century

25% discount to apply until 30.11 - New price; €1635

Terracotta: "The Gardener or End of the Day"
Beautiful representation of Popular Art of which Le Guluche was one of the specialists
This sculpture represents a peasant wiping his forehead and holding his spade in his left hand.
It is the return of work.
Beautiful polychromy

Signed with edition stamp
Last quarter of the 19th century

Joseph Le GULUCHE. (1849 - 1915)

Joseph Le Guluche, born in Brittany and died in the Paris region is a French sculptor.
He mainly produced popular subjects for the decorative terracotta factories of Villeneuve La Grande (Aube) and L'Isle Adam (Val d'Oise)
He was the son of a sailor and a spinner. In 1851, the family moved to Le Havre. This is probably where he trained, on the job. There is no record of him enrolling in an art school .
In 1879, he lived in L'Isle-Adam, near the decorative terracotta factory of Mauger and Letut (MIA)
Joseph Le Guluche's collaboration with the Mauger families and in particular with Alphonse Hanne marked the golden age of these factories. Polymorphous, his work is divided into several major categories: seaside subjects, rural subjects, Art Nouveau-inspired feminine allegories, orientalist subjects. Some sculptures escape this classification, mythological subjects like Leda and the Swan, or historical ones like Boer Warrior.
Made of stamped terracotta, polychrome or not, these works measure from 20 cm to 1 meter. Intended for a popular audience, Joseph Le Guluche's characters are quite emblematic of the phenomenon of edition sculpture in full development at the end of the 19th century
A set of his works are preserved at the Louis Senlecq Museum of Art and History in L'Isle Adam.

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