19th century bronze, 80 cm, Adrien Gaudez 1845/1902, Joan of Arc

Bronze 19th century, Adrien Gaudez 1845/1902, Joan of Arc

Epoch: 19th century, Bronze in perfect condition and with lost wax and gilding

Signed: A. Gaudez, artist referenced and listed, Bronze bears a plaque with the dates of Joan of Arc

Subject: Bronze representing Joan of Arc
Dimensions: Height: 80 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: 25 cm

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 is a French sculptor.
Gaudez is the student of François Jouffroy at the École des beaux-arts in Paris in 1862. He debuted at the Salon 2 years later.
Prisoner of war in Magdeburg during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he is notably responsible for the monument in memory of the French prisoners of this city.
He is also the author of Florian d’Alès, the war memorial of Remiremont, etc.
At the Salon his bronzes are few in number

Source Bénézit and Dictionary of Sculptors – Bronze of the XIX° - Pierre Kjelberg – Editions de l’amateur

Works:

Canada:
Quebec, 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 summit statue and the bronze cartouche were sent to be melted down under the Vichy regime in 1942, as part of the mobilization of non-ferrous metals.
Clermont-Ferrand, Roger-Quilliot art museum: Actéon, circa 1898, bronze.
Neuilly-sur-Seine:
Hébé, statue;
Monument to Parmentier, 1888, sent to be melted down 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 the sculptor Andre Lavaysse, made from a bronze reduction kept at the town hall;
Monument to Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, 1897, the statue was sent to be melted down under the Vichy regime, as part of the mobilization of non-ferrous metals. In 1981, the municipality replaced it at another location (Puteaux Island) with an 18th-century stone statue of unknown origin.
Paris:
Lycée Condorcet, courtyard of the college: L'Enseignement, 1883, limestone group.
Musée d'Orsay: Winged woman in the middle of reeds, marble statue, Alfred Chauchard legacy.
Petit Palais: Lully child, 1885, plaster statue.
Remiremont: War memorial of 1870, 18928.

Sold with Invoice and Certificate.

Bronze visible at our gallery in L'Isle sur la Sorgue (France), on weekends.

Free shipping for France.
And on estimate for abroad

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