JACQUES LÉONARD MAILLET – ALLEGORICAL STATUE IN STERLING SILVER – XIXEALLEGORICAL STATUE in solid silver representing a goddess in a magnificent draped dress. Stained wooden base.

Dimensions: height of the statue alone: ​​58 cm – height of the base: 8 cm - total height: 66 cm.

Material: Silver 1er title 950/°°°

Weight: 7520 grams

Hallmark: MINERVA

Period: 1866 (dated and signed)

Creator: Jacques Léonard MAILLET (1823-1895)

Origin: France/Paris

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bronze of 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.