BENEDICT ROUGELET (France, 1834-1894). "Three putti or lovebirds playing". Bronze.

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  BENEDICT ROUGELET (France, 1834-1894). "Three putti or lovebirds playing". Bronze. Boudet Editeur, Paris. Signed. Measurements: 61 x 56 x 30 cm. Benedict Rougelet offers us a sculpture in round bulk worked in a delicate tone, faithful to his style, with soft and warm finishes, endowed with grace and naturalism in gestures and movements. The piece, of classical inspiration, shows three putti playing. French sculptor born in Tournus, he was initially trained in the drawing workshop for young masons inaugurated by Father Philibert Garnier, a priest in Tournus, who was the brother of Alceste Milk de Chapuys-Montlaville. Senator during the Second Empire. With the support of this senator, he obtained a scholarship from the General Council to study in Lyon and Paris. In 1862, he was in Lyon, where he worked under the direction of Guillaume Bonnet. In 1866, in Paris, he entered the studio of Francisque Duret at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the competition for the creation of a monument dedicated to Greuze, in Tournus, inaugurated in 1868. Works: Décoration sculptée du musée-bibliothèque de Grenoble, 1876.Décoration sculptée de l'hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, à Paris, 1876.La jeunesse de Bacchus, Salon de 1876. Bust of François Joseph Lionnet, 1879, cimetière du Montparnasse.La toupie, Salon of 1880. Le petit malin, Salon of 1880, musée de Tournus Bust of Jean-Marie Berthellier, 1882, cimetière du Père-Lachaise. Bust of Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux, Salon of 1884, Condé Museum, Chantilly. Médaillons, comprising the effigies of the actors Samson and Melle Mars, to decorate the south courtyard of the Paris City Hall, 1882. Le fil rompu, Salon de 1885, in marbre au Salon de 1889, Exposition universelle de 1889.
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