CAST FROM A MODEL BY JEAN-LOUIS GRÉGOIRE, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Jean-Louis Grégoire, (d. 1890) was born and died in Paris. Training under Salmson at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he exhibited at the Salon from 1867 and became one of the first Associates of the Artistes Français. The present work, L'Allégro, is one of several groups by Grégoire that take music as their theme, others being his figure of Mozart enfant, tuning his violin, and Un artiste au XVIIe siècle, also portraying a violinist. Compositionally, L'Allégro has affinities with works by Salmson, in which two figures are depicted in movement, and it is also related to other works by Grégoire, such as La Confidence, Perseus and Andromeda and Helen and Paris. The present fine cast was probably produced by Bernoux and is the larger of two sizes edited by the foundry.