Jacques Léonard MAILLET – Allegorical statue in solid silver – XIXe

Jacques Léonard MAILLET – Allegorical statue in solid silver – XIXe
ALLEGORICAL STATUE in solid silver representing a goddess in a magnificent draped dress, still panting from the race she has just completed, raises above her head the palm she has just won. Statue listed in the book by H. BOUILHET » French Goldsmithing of the 18th & 19th centuries.
This statue was awarded for a victory of the stallion "Gladiateur" during the Grand Prix de l'Impératrice race in 1866 at the Longchamps racecourse. This horse belonged to Count Frédéric de LAGRANGE, a French politician and senator of the Second Empire. A large bronze statue made by Isidore Bonheurr in 1866 represents him in Paris, near the entrance to the Longchamp racecourse.
Dimensions: height of the statue alone 58 cm – base height 8 cm – total height 66 cm.
Material: 1st grade silver 950/°°°
Weight: 7520 gr.
Hallmark: MINERVE
Period: 1866 (dated and signed)
Creator: Jacques Léonard MAILLET (1823-1895)
Origin: France / Paris
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bronze of the XIXe -Page 448 – Amateur edition
MILLET Jacques Léonard (1823/1895)
First Grand Prix de Rome in 1847, after studying under the direction of FEUCHERE then PRADIER, he remained five years in Rome then began at the salon in 1853.
He worked for several Parisian churches, for the Louvre, for the Hôtel de Ville, and the Opera.
His work, very marked by ancient and biblical themes, also includes small terracottas and models for goldsmithing.
In 1859, he exhibited one of his major works at the salon, a plaster cast, Agrippina carrying the ashes of Germanicus, the marble of which was placed in the Monceau Park in Paris in 1893.