MATHURIN MOREAU (1822/1912)
Sculptor
Young woman with violin.
Original 19th century bronze with brown patina signed on the base.
Height: 70 cm
Museums: Caen, Dijon, Paris (Musée des arts décoratifs), Reims, Paris (Eglise St Augustin, Eglise de la Trinité, Opéra Garnier, Palais de justice, Hôtel de ville, Les Tuileries, Pavillon Marsan in the Louvre, Place du Théâtre Français )
Literature: Bénézit, Les Bronzes au 19è siècle, Dictionary of sculptors by Pierre Kjellberg.
Mathurin Moreau, born in Dijon on November 18, 1822, died in Paris on February 14, 1912, French sculptor.
Mathurin Moreau is the son of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Moreau. His brothers Hippolyte and Auguste are also sculptors.
He was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1841 in the studios of Jules Ramey and Auguste Dumont. He won the second prize of Rome in 1842 with Diodème enlevant le Palladium. He debuted at the Salon des artistes français in 1848 and attracted attention there with the statue L'Élégie.
He received a second class medal at the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris, then a first class medal in 1878. In 1897, for his last participation in the Salon, he was awarded a medal of honor.
Between 1849 and 1879, Mathurin Moreau collaborated with the Val d'Osne art foundry and became one of its directors, but he also provided models to the Compagnie des bronzes de Bruxelles, and exhibited at the Central Union of Fine Arts Applied to Industry in the 1880s.
In 1880, the artist received a prize in the competition for the erection of an allegorical monument of La Défense de Paris at the Courbevoie roundabout2, but it was Louis-Ernest Barrias who was awarded the commission.
From 1879 until his death, Mathurin Moreau was elected mayor of the 19th arrondissement of Paris, where Avenue Mathurin-Moreau, previously Rue Priestley, bore this name by virtue of the decree of July 16, 1912. As deputy, he celebrated many marriages there.
He died in Paris 19th on February 14, 1912, at his home, at no. 15, Passage du Montenegro. His funeral took place at the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church in Belleville and he was buried in the Lilas cemetery.
He was named a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1865 and promoted to officer of the same order in 1885.
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