Bronze statuette “The Bull” after Isidore Bonheur, on a marble base.
Length: 17 cm – Width: 7,5 cm – Height: 21cm
Weight: 3,2 kg.
Isidore Jules Bonheur (Bordeaux, May 15, 1827 – 1901), aged 74, is a painter and sculptor French.
He is the second son, behind Auguste Happiness and the third child, of Raymond Bonheur (?-1849), painter and Sophie Marquis (1797-1828). He was one year old when his mother died. His father remarried and in 1830 had a daughter by his new wife: Juliette Bonheur who also became a painter and married in 1852, the art founder François Auguste Hippolyte Peyrol (1856-1929). Member of a family of artists whose best-known representative is the painter Rosa Bonheur, the eldest of the siblings. Isidore made his first artistic apprenticeships with his father Raymond and his older sister Rosa. In 1849, he entered the Paris School of Fine Arts. He first tried his hand at painting and presented an African Horseman attacked by a lioness at the 1848 Salon, then turned more particularly towards sculpture, particularly naturalistic subjects featuring animals.
In 1850 he presented a group, Bull fight which is noticed. He won several medals at the Salons and a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1889.
The bronze statues are made using the lost wax method, and are 100% bronze.
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