Bronze XIX ème, 66 cm, Lucienne SIGNORET LEDIEU, Diane chasseresse à la source

Bronze XIX ème, 66 cm, Lucienne SIGNORET LEDIEU, Diane chasseresse à la source

Period: 19th century, Bronze in perfect condition, bronze with beautiful patina, with a rotating base.
Signed: Signed in the bronze, artist referenced and side, with Founder's stamp.
Sold with Invoice / Certificate

Subject : "Diana the Huntress at the Spring
Dimensions : Height : 66 cm, Width : 26 cm, Depth : 26 cm, Weight : 16 Kg

Biography :
Lucienne SIGNORET LEDIEU 1853 / 1904
Lucienne Signoret-Ledieu, born Marie Lucie Ledieu in Nevers (Nièvre) on August 10, 1853 and died in Arcueil on February 28, 1904, was a French sculptor.
Born into a working-class family in Nevers, Marie Lucie Ledieu became a pupil of the sculptor Jean Gautherin (1840-1890). She was a member of the women's committee of the Union centrale des arts décoratifs. To commemorate the liberation of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier by Joan of Arc on November 4, 1429, the town commissions a statue of her liberator.
His bust of Le Soir earned him a letter of praise from Alexandre Dumas fils.
She made her debut at the 1878 Salon. Honorable mention in 1883 and 1886.
Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917), journalist, writer and art critic from Normandy, wrote of her: "A great artist, too little known, alas, and who quite simply has the soul of Donatello".
She lived at 72, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques in Paris. In 1876, she married sculptor François Léon Signoret, and later added his name to hers, "Signoret-Ledieu".

Museums :
Chambéry, Musée des Beaux-Arts: Fileuse, bronze, Thiébaut frères cast.
Clermont-Ferrand, Musée d'Art Roger-Quilliot: Ruth, 1855.
Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts: La Fileuse, 1886, bronze, 77 cm.
Nevers, Musée municipal Frédéric-Blandin: Buste de femme, patinated plaster on pedestal, 79 × 57 × 37 cm.
Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier: Monument to Joan of Arc, 1902, bronze statue. The pedestal bears the inscription: "À Jeanne-d'Arc, libératrice de Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier en 1429" ("To Joan of Arc, liberator of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier in 1429").
Vaucouleurs, town hall, Musée de l'Imagerie johanique: Joan of Arc as a shepherdess, 1904, bronze statuette.
1889 World's Fair: La Pileuse du Berri, plaster statue.
Universal Exhibition of 1900.

Sources :
Bénézit, dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'École française au dix-neuvième siècle. T. I. A-C, 1914-1921 (read online [archive]), p. 256-257.

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

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