Lot 527: After Pierre Loison: A cast iron fountain,

After Pierre Loison: A cast iron fountain,
French, late 19th Century,
with a scantily clad girl holding a conch shell on her shoulder plumbed for water and seated on a bullrush cast rocky outcrop, stamped
J J Ducel et Fils
242cm.; 95ins. high

Pierre Loison 1816-1886 was a studen of David D'Angers. He entered the Academy of Beaux Arts in 1842, exhibited at the Salon in 1845, won the Premier Class Medal in 1853, and was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1859.
The Ducel Foundry was started in 1810 and was incorporated into the Val d'Osne foundry in 1878. This figure appears in the catalogue for Societe Anonyme des Hauts Fourneaux & Fonderies du Val d'Osne, plate 151 (see engraving)