Jean-Paul Aube (French, 1837-1919), La Peinture

Patinated bronze, signed P. AUBE to the plinth side.

25 x 15 x 11 in.

Private Collection, Roanoke, Virginia

Jean-Paul Aubé was a French sculptor born in Longwy, north eastern France, and educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied with Antoine Laurent Dantan and Francisque Duret.
Aubé won two gold medals at the Salons of 1874 and 1876, and achieved further success at the Salon of 1879 with this full-length portrait of the famous Florentine poet and statesman, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). The artist's Monument à Dante (1882) is located in Michel-Foucault square, Paris. Other works include La Moisson (1879) in Procé park, Nantes, as well as Monument à Léon Gambetta (1888) in Édouard-Vaillant square, Paris.

Overall good condition with nice warm brown patina; some areas of light scratches and rubbing to the patina.

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