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Bronze sculpture with a brown-gold patina representing the bust of Victor Pointevin*, magistrate of Reims, signed L. Chavalliaud** and dated 1887, also signed by Bingen Fondeur***, on a marble base, from the 19th century.
This bust is in good condition and is of very good quality. Signed on the back see photos.
A similar bronze bust (and from the same founder) is kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Reims (inventory 888.29.1)
Please note: repair on the marble base (see red arrows), slight wear and tear, see photos.
Attorney (1854), former attorney at the Reims Court (1880), Judge at the Reims Civil Court (1886), deputy mayor (1907). Father of Hippolyte Portevin (1854 - 1935) French architect and civil engineer.
is a French sculptor. Léon Chavalliaud was an apprentice modeler in the Bulteau workshop in Reims. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with the help of a city scholarship. There he was a student of Alexandre Falguière, François Jouffroy in 1878, and especially Louis Auguste Roubaud. After working in 1880 on the caryatids of the courtyard façade of the Reims city hall, he acquired a reputation thanks to his busts. Chavalliaud received the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1886 with the subject Tobie Removing the Fish from the Water. The 1891 Salon earned him a medal; the 1892 Salon rewarded his Monument to the Breton-Angevin Federation and his statuette of the young Melchior de Polignac. He made a study trip to Italy to perfect his skills through the works of the great masters, then he left for England in 1892, where he lived for fifteen years in the Brixton district of London. He sculpted tombs of famous people, monuments executed for the cathedrals of Lincoln, Ely, Winchester, Chichester and in many chapels and churches. Appreciated for the exact resemblance of his subjects, he was in great demand to execute busts of personalities such as William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Roberts, etc. He returned to Reims in 1907. There, he sculpted the statue of Dom Pérignon. This work, kept in the Hautvillers Abbey, was awarded a medal at the Salon des artistes français in 1910. He made many busts of famous people in his hometown, notably that of Doctor Langlet, mayor of Reims during the First World War.
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was a French founder of the second half of the 19th century. After training with goldsmiths, he practiced lost-wax casting. He worked for Ernest Barrias, Carrier-Belleuse, Jean Carriès, Charles Cordier, Jean Dampt, Alexandre Falguière, Jean-Antoine Injalbert, Ernest Meissonier, Jean-Désiré Ringel d'Illzach, Auguste Rodin, Théodore Rivière and Jules Dalou. He set up his workshop at 74 rue des Plantes in Paris.
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