A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF A BOY, cast from a model by Edouard Drouot, the adolescent standing with legs apart, wearing a loin-cloth and eating an oyster held in his left hand, his right hand resting on his hip, on a naturalistic rocky base signed E. Drouot and with the foundry mark SIOT-DECAUVILLE FONDEUR PARIS impressed in a roundel, last quarter 19th century

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF A BOY, cast from a model by Edouard Drouot, the adolescent standing with legs apart, wearing a loin-cloth and eating an oyster held in his left hand, his right hand resting on his hip, on a naturalistic rocky base signed E. Drouot and with the foundry mark SIOT-DECAUVILLE FONDEUR PARIS impressed in a roundel, last quarter 19th century

13¼in. (33.6cm.) wide; 26¼in. (66.6cm.) high; 9in. (23cm.) deep

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Edward Drouot was born in 1859 and studied in Paris under Mathurin Moreau. He began exhibiting at the Salon of 1889 won a third class medal at the Salon of 1892 and an honourable mention at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. He is chiefly remembered for the sense of movement and the depth of expression with which he endowed his sculpture.

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