AFTER THE MODEL BY MATHURIN MOREAU, CIRCA 1860

Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) was the eldest brother of a successful and prolific family of sculptors. He worked on numerous public monuments, as well as a series of large decorative bronze statuettes, for which he is primarily famed. He became one of the administrators of the Val d'Osne foundry and it is likely that most of his own work was cast by this company. Moreau's career was long and successful and he exhibited at the Salon from 1848 until the end of the century.