Buste de Marianne (Mairie)

Her long curly hair is crowned with oak leaves and a star, and she wears a Phrygian cap. She is 1.21m high and 71cm wide. The artist wanted to achieve a bronze patina effect. On the reverse is the inscription "Oh dear Republic, be our North Star, guide us to a future of wisdom and prosperity". This pedestal-mounted bust was made using the staff or mousseline-plastie or light plastic technique, which involves hollowing out the sculpture with a wire frame and probably a metal frame. While retaining its solidity, this process ensures greater lightness. This work is signed by sculptor Eugène Denis Arrondelle (1824 - 1907) and dated 1898. From 1886 to 1907, Arrondelle was chief sculptor and painter in the Louvre molding workshop, as well as a contractor for the City of Paris. IMH