Galliard Sansonetti (1865-?), galloping horse in cast iron, XIXe

Beautiful monumental sculpture in cast iron, representing a horse in full gallop.

The museum of Pau has an identical work in bronze of smaller size.

BIOGRAPHY :

Galliard Sansonneti is a French sculptor, born in 1865 in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle).

He was a pupil of Raphael Collin and Geoffroy.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Bulldog female dog (1894), plaster.

Death of Brunehaut, (1895) plaster group.

Bulldog bitch (1896), bronze.

Greyhounds (1897), plaster group (Pau Museum).

Orpheus (1894), plaster.

Héro et Léandre (1894), marble bas-reliefs, first medal, acquired by the State.

Médée (1896), marble group, acquired by the State.

Two marble busts (1897), acquired by the State.