Bronze XIX ème, 60 cm, Clovis Edmond MASSON 1838/1913, Tigres en

Bronze XIX ème, 60 cm, Clovis Edmond MASSON 1838/1913, Tigers in family

Period: 19th century, Bronze in perfect condition, bronze with very beautiful patina
Signed: Signed in the bronze, artist referenced and side
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Subject : "Tigers and family
Dimensions : Height : 31 cm, Length : 60 cm, Depth : 25 cm, Weight : 16 Kg

Biography :
Clovis Edmond MASSON 1838 / 1913
Animal sculptor born in Paris on March 7, 1838, died in 1913.
A pupil of Santiago, Antoine Louis Barye and Rouillard, he exhibited at the Salon from 1867 to 1881, winning an honorable mention in 1890.
He specialized in animal representations. His most common materials were plaster, wax and bronze.
From 1867, he exhibited regularly at the Salon de Paris until 1881. He produced over fifty works up to 1909.
Source Benézit
Pierre Kjellberg, Bronze du xixe siècle, 1994

Works in museums :
The Musée de Château-Thierry holds Chevreuils au débûché.
The city of Nîmes has several sculptures by the artist in its municipal museum.

La Statue équestre du roi de Siam :
In early 1907, King Chulalongkorn of Thailand, known as Rama V, decided to erect a monument to himself in a vast, empty esplanade on which the parliament building would soon stand (it would not be completed until 1915).
Rama V set sail for Europe in 1907. Right from the start, Chulalongkorn had the idea of erecting an equestrian statue. A visit to the Palace of Versailles in the spring of 1907 convinced him.
Like Louis XIV, whose statue stands in the château's main courtyard, Rama V would also leave his mark on Bangkok with his equestrian statue. So it was that Rama V had his statue made in France.
In mid-June 1907, the Thai sovereign posed for sculptor Georges Saulo at the Susse brothers' foundry on boulevard de la Madeleine in Paris, while sculptor Clovis Masson created the horse destined to receive the king's statue.

Bronze on view at our gallery in L'Isle sur la Sorgue (France) at weekends.
Free shipping within France
And on estimate for foreign countries

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