Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) - Escultura, A large figure of a young woman, sitting on a tree stump and playing with birds - 78 cm - Bronce patinado

We offer for sale a beautiful romantic bronze statue by Mathurin Moreau from the end of the 19th century, circa 1860-90. Very detailed . A young lady sitting on a tree stump enjoying the peace and playing with young birds

Mathurin Moreau (Dijon, November 18, 1822 – Paris, February 14, 1912) was a French sculptor. He is a member of the Moreau sculptor family. The patina is perfect.

Biography
Mathurin Moreau was born from the marriage of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Joseph Moreau and Anne Marianne Richer, originally from Besançon where her father, Mathieu Richer, was also a sculptor. Moreau's brothers, Hippolyte and Auguste, were also sculptors.

Moreau was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1841 and took lessons with Jules Ramey and Auguste Dumont. He won second prize in Rome in 1842 with the Diodème enlevant le Palladium. In 1848 he made his debut at the Salon des artistes français with the sculpture L'Élégie.

At the Paris World Exhibitions he won a second class medal in 1855, a first class medal in 1878 and a gold medal in 1889. In 1897 he received a medal of honor at the Salon[1]. He was a jury member at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

In addition to his academic neoclassical and Art Nouveau sculptures in marble and bronze, he is known all over the world for his monumental works and serial work.

Between 1849 and 1879, Moreau worked with the Val d'Osne art foundry, becoming one of its shareholders and later one of its managers.

As part of this collaboration, he made about a hundred models, statues and decorative objects that are listed in the studio's catalogue. This concerns candlesticks, table lamps, fountains, vases, statues, torches, religious statues and grave monuments. In the early days of electricity he designed numerous lamps that bear his signature.[5] Most of these statues are made of cast iron, covered with a coating of imitation bronze. His monumental fountains and statues dot the cityscape not only in many French cities, but also in many other countries, especially in South America, where he was very popular.

He also supplied models to the "Compagnie des Bronzes de Bruxelles".

In 1879 he was elected, until his death, mayor of the 19th arrondissement of Paris. The painter Henri Gervex made a painting of Mathurin Moreau who, as mayor, performed the wedding of his son Ean-Mathurin Moreau in 1881. It still hangs prominently in the wedding room of the town hall of the 19th arrondissement.

He was made a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1865 and promoted to the rank of officer of the same order in 1885.

He died on February 14, 1912 at his home Passage du Montenegro 15 in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. He was buried in Les Lilas cemetery.

His only son, Jean-Mathurin Moreau, was an architect.