Object Description
A very good quality late 19th century French bronze statue entitled ‘Return from fishing’
Signed: Math. Moreau
Signed Math Moreau.
Mathurin Moreau born 1822, died 1912.
The eldest son of sculptor and painter Jean-Baptiste Moreau, and brother to Auguste and Hippolte. Math debuted at the Salon in 1848, he worked for a period of time at the foundry of Val d’Osne, and in his later years became one it’s administrators. Many of his works can be seen around Paris, as he worked for Saint-Augustin and Trinite´ churches, the Opera, the palais de Justice, city hall, the Tuileries and the pavillion of Marsan at the Louvre. His smaller sculptures were of staues, statuettes and groups in pleasant decorative themes.