Jules Jacques Théodore Dominique Labatut

Sotheby's London, 16 December 2015, lot 47;

Where acquired by the present collector.

Jules Jacques Labatut studied at the École des Beaux Arts under François Jouffroy and Antonin Mercié and he won the Prix de Rome in 1881. He exhibited frequently at the Salon and at the Exposition Universelle, and took home medals in 1889 and 1990. He often depicted Greek and Roman subjects, including the myth of Narcissus, the poet Tyrtaeus, and as depicted in this sculpture, the birth of the goddess Venus.