A French white marble group entitled 'Amour Maternel'

BY EMILE-ANDRÉ BOISSEAU, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A French white marble group entitled 'Amour Maternel'
By Emile-André Boisseau, Late 19th Century
Of a young mother sat on a chair, supporting her infant son on her lap, her elder daughter at her side holding a posy of flowers, on a shaped base inscribed with the title and signed to the right hand side, on a conforming red marble plinth, the posy restored
31in. (75.7cm.) high, overall

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This charming group is representative of one the most popular themes of the late 19th Century. Boisseau was born at Varzy in 1842, and studied with Dumont and Bonnassieux at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, exhibiting frequently at the Paris salon from the 1870s.

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