With a graceful movement she reaches for a rose growing at her feet. She has already put a few in her hair, this freshly washed bather. Add the scent of roses and you are wherever she is, in paradise. Gilded terracotta statue with age patina by the famous artist Max Blondat.
Max Blondat was a French sculptor of the Art Nouveau period. One of his most famous sculptures is the
Fountain of Youth, representing three children watching three frogs. Copies are at the Place Darcy in Fontainebleau; Düsseldorf, Germany; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Ukraine, Odessa; Zurich, Switzerland, and the United States in Denver.
He was the son of a cooper and was apprenticed to an ornamental sculptor in 1886. He arrived in Paris and began studies in 1889 and in 1890 he exhibited at the French Salon for the first time with a plaster medallion.
In 1892 he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He worked in wood, stone, earth, glass, bronze, and excelled in the decorative arts.
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