4A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF A WOMAN, cast from a model by Julien Lorieux, the coquettish girl standing, head thrown back, hands on hips and holding the corset which she has taken off in her right hand, one of her breasts revealed, on a circular spreading socle signed J.Lorieux and inscribed J.MALESSET. Fondeur d'Art. Paris, early 20th Century

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4A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF A WOMAN, cast from a model by Julien Lorieux, the coquettish girl standing, head thrown back, hands on hips and holding the corset which she has taken off in her right hand, one of her breasts revealed, on a circular spreading socle signed J.Lorieux and inscribed J.MALESSET. Fondeur d'Art. Paris, early 20th Century
6¼in. (16cm.) diam.; 27in. (68.5cm.) high

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Julien Auguste Lorieux (d.1915) was born in Paris and studied under Falguière, Prinet and Mercié. Exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français, he won a travelling scholarship in 1902 and a first class medal in 1907.

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