Ernest Eugène Hiolle (1834-1886) - Lot 241

Ernest Eugène Hiolle (1834-1886) Brutus Model created in 1865-1866 Bust in patinated terra cotta Signed "E. Hiolle" on the left shoulder H. 44 x L. 18.5 cm, on a blackened wooden pedestal Wear Related work : -Ernest Eugène Hiolle, Brutus jeune, bronze bust, Abbeville, musée Boucher de Perthes, inv. 2006.1.12 Ernest Hiolle trained with sculptor Laurent-Séverin Grandfils at the Ecole académique de Valenciennes, then with François Jouffroy at the École Impériale et Spéciale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Winner of the Prix de Rome in 1862, he was a resident at the Villa Médicis between 1863 and 1868. His submissions testify to his taste for antiquity and mythology discovered in the Eternal City. At the 1866 Salon, he presented a marble statue of young Tiberius based on the antique, and the following year, a marble bust of Brutus to replace the regulation third-year sketch. He won a gold medal at the 1870 Salon for his Narcissus. On his return, he settled in Valenciennes and took on private and official commissions. Expert : Elodie Jeannest Cabinet Sculpture et Collection