BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
AIMÉ-JULES DALOU | LE PAYSAN RELEVANT SA MANCHE (GRAND PAYSAN), PROJET POUR LE MONUMENT AUX OUVRIERS
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AIMÉ-JULES DALOU
French
1838-1902
LE PAYSAN RELEVANT SA MANCHE (GRAND PAYSAN), PROJET POUR LE MONUMENT AUX OUVRIERS
signed: DALOU Sclp, inscribed: Susse Freres Edts, stamped: SUSSE FRERES EDITEURS PARIS, and with a plaque to the base inscribed: à Edouard NADAUD / LA CLASSE DU CONSERVATOIRE / 1919
bronze, brown patina
43cm., 16⅞in.
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Edouard Nadaud (1862-1928), Paris;
formerly private collection, France
After completing his celebrated monument celebrating the French Republic, Le Triomphe de la République, Dalou next wanted to raise a monument for labourers. From 1889 onwards, Dalou created several plaster models of peasants and farmers, and a scale model of the whole monument, which survives in the Petit Palais (inv. no. PPS78). The present 'Peasant rolling up his Sleeve' is the only statue the sculptor finished before his death in 1902. It was posthumously exhibited in the Salon of 1902 as an homage to the recently deceased sculptor, and was reproduced in bronze by the Susse Foundry.
RELATED LITERATURE
A. Simier and M. Kisiel, Jules Dalou, le Sculpteur de la République. Catalogue des sculptures de Jules Dalou conserves au Petit Palais, cat. Petit Palais, Paris, 2013, no. 235