19th CENTURY 24" BRONZE SCULPTURE BY MATHURIN MOREAU 1822-1912 WEIGHS 34 POUNDS

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Mathurin Moreau, born in Dijon on 18 November 1822, died in Paris on 14 February 1912,
Is a French sculptor, renowned for his decorative sculptures.
Mathurin Moreau is the son of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Moreau. His brothers Hippolyte and Augustus are also sculptors.
He was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1841 in the studios of Jules Ramey and Auguste Dumont.
He won the second prize of Rome in 1842 with Diodemus removing the Palladium.
He began his career at the Salon des artistes français in 1848 and was noticed with the statue L'Élégie.
He was awarded a second-class medal at the 1855 Paris World Exposition and then a first-class medal in 1878.
In 1897, for his last participation in the Salon, he is crowned by a medal of honor.
Between 1849 and 1879 Mathurin Moreau collaborated with the Val d'Osne art foundry and became one of the directors,
But he also provided models to the Bronze Company of Brussels, and exhibited at the Central Union of Fine Arts applied to industry in the 1880s.
In 1880, the artist received a bonus at the contest for the erection of an allegorical monument of La Défense de
Paris at the Courbevoie roundabout, but Louis-Ernest Barrias was awarded the order.
From 1879 until his death, Mathurin Moreau was elected mayor of the 19th arrondissement of Paris where Avenue Mathurin-Moreau,
Formerly in the Rue Priestley, bears this name by virtue of the decree of July 16, 1912. As a deputy, he has celebrated many marriages.
He died in Paris 19th on February 14, 1912, at his home, at No. 15, Passage du Montenegro. His funeral took place in the church
Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Belleville and is buried in the Lilac Cemetery.
He was named Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1865 and promoted to the same rank in 1885.