Important animal bronze with brown and green patina by Édouard Drouot (1859-1945), depicting a tamer taming a lioness. Signed on the side: "Drouot". Foundry stamp "LN Paris JL" (Les neveux de Jules Lehman). Numbered "12". Les Neveux de Jules Lehmann Les Neveux de Jules Lehmann, abbreviated LN Paris JL is a Parisian art foundry, renowned in particular for its production of mostly chryselephantine bronze statuettes in the Art Deco period. The company was headquartered at 26 rue de Paradis, Paris. Another part of the company was located at 14, avenue de l'Opéra. The foundry produced works by such renowned artists as Demetre Chiparus, Madeleine Granger Claire Colinet, Édouard Drouot, Maurice Guiraud-Rivière, Jean-Antoine Injalbert, Agathon Léonard, Pierre Le Faguays, Raoul Lamourdedieu, Gaston Hauchecorne, Amedeo Gennarelli, Georges Chauvel and Jean Ortis. Production at this foundry came to an end with the outbreak of the Second World War and the German occupation of France. Édouard Drouot (1859-1945) Edouard Drouot was a French sculptor and student of Mathurin Moreau at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He exhibited busts, male and female figures, allegories, orientalist, animal and mythological compositions at the Salon des artistes français from 1889, winning a medal and several honorable mentions. A significant number of his works are printed in bronze. Art Deco period, Circa: 1930 Dim: W:42cm, D:20cm, H:61,5cm. In very good condition.
- Reference :
- 2837
- Availability :
- Sold
- Width :
- 42 (cm)
- Height :
- 62 (cm)
- Depth :
- 20 (cm)
- Identifier Exists:
- False
