SOLD OUT - Antique French sculptor CROISY Aristide bronze sculpture representing an infantryman

Antique 19th century French sculptor CROISY Aristide (1840/1899), ‘ Qui Vive ‘ bronze sculpture, representing French infantryman.

Sculpture is standing on a marble base designed by a Joseph Muller.

Dimensions -
Weight: 3944 grams
Size: 12 x 12 x 34 cm

Condition: Excellent

About the artist:
Onésime-Aristide Croisy was born in Fagnon, a village in the Ardennes, on 31 March 1840. He made his first models while living at Mézieres.
He entered the École des Beaux-Arts on 8 October 1857.
He won the second 2nd-class grand prize of the Prix de Rome in 1863.The subject was Nisus et Euryale. He competed again in 1865 and won the first 2nd-class grand prize.In 1865 the École des Beaux-Arts awarded him the grand medal for sculpture.
His real debut was at the Salon of 1867.

After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 Croisy received several orders to glorify the French war heroes.
He excelled in expressive and vigorous bronze sculptures of military subjects. These included the sculpture Monument à l'armée de la Loire et au général Chanzy in Orléans, the bas-reliefs of the Statue de Chanzy in Le Mans (1885) and the statue of Mobile in Sainte-Anne-d'Auray. He also sculpted General Boulanger and the statue of Étienne Méhul, author of the Chant du départ..., for his home town of Givet.
He made the groups surrounding the pedestal of the monument of General Chanzy erected at Le Mans in 1885, representing four episodes of national defence.
In 1877 Croisy worked on restoration of the chapel of the Palace of Versailles. He made various allegorical statues for monuments in Paris such as Architecture for the Paris Bourse.
Croisy sculpted Le Nid (The Nest) in 1882, considered to be his masterpiece. It received 2nd medal at the Salon that year.