Lot 63: auguste paris , French 1850-1915 le temps et la chanson bronze, rich brown patina, raised on a later beige marble fluted columnar pedestal

signed A te Paris sculpt r and with the SUSSE F RE foundry mark. bronze, rich brown patina, raised on a later beige marble fluted columnar pedestal

measurements figure height 31 1/2 in.; pedestal height 37 in. alternate measurements 80 cm; 94 cm

Pierre Cadet, Susse Frères 150 Years of Sculpture, ed. Susse Frères, Paris, 1992, p. 200

Auguste Paris studied under François Jouffroy, Alexandre Falguière, and Amedée Doublemard. He began exhibiting at the Salon in 1876 and won numerous prizes during his career, the highest being Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1892. He won many public commissions for the town of Paris, notably the Danton monument at the Boulevard Saint-Germain.