By Aimé-Jules Dalou
Located in PARIS, FR
"The Broken Mirror" also named "The Unrecognized Truth"
by Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902)
Bronze with a very nuanced brown patina
cast by SUSSE
France
circa 1910
height 34 cm
A similar model reproduced in "Jules Dalou, le sculpteur de la République", Exhibition held at the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 2013, page 391, n°316.
Biography :
Aimé-Jules Dalou, said Jules Dalou(1838-1902) was a French sculptor, born from Protestants glovers craftsmen who raised in secularism and love of the Republic. Jules Dalou was very young talented for modeling and drawing, which earned him the attention of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, who made him entered in 1852 in the Little School, the future National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. In 1854, he was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Paris, where he studied painting in the workshop of Abel de Pujol and sculpture in the workshop of Francisque Duret...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Aimé-Jules Dalou Nude Sculptures