Lutte Pour La Vie (Fight for Life), A Pair of Glazed Ceramic Figural Jardinières
Modelled and designed by Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, circa 1900
Modelled with putti nestled amidst pendant blossoming roses branches and thistles, signed in the glaze LOUIS.CARRIER-BELLEUSE., stamped mark for Choisy-le-Roi and Hippolyte Boulanger, and impressed letters and numerals
Each jardinière: 15 ½ in (38.7 cm) high, 18 in (45.6 cm) wide
Each jardinière: 15 ½ in (38.7 cm) high, 18 in (45.6 cm) wide
The Choisy-le-Roi factory of Choisy-le-Roi, France, produced faience and majolica of exceptional quality from 1860 until 1910. The factory's work was among the most delicate produced in France and it holds a significant place among 19th-century ceramics. The factory employed the talents of esteemed artists such as Chaplet, Dammouse, Albert-Ernest and Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse. In 1867, the decision was made to not imitate the faience patterns and designs of the past but to take inspiration from the Art Nouveau style. The brilliant and virtuoso production of the factory was undoubtedly due to the influence of Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse, who was appointed as art director in 1890.
Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse (1848-1913) studied sculpture under his father Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-87) and painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1870 and turned to sculpture in 1889. Like his father, he also worked as a modeller of porcelain, and became art director of the Choisy-le-Roi factory Hautin, Boulanger & Co, one of the renowned French earthenware factories established in 1804 by the Paillard brothers. There he continued in the tradition of his father designing architectural pieces and those of mythological subject.
Pieces by Carrier-Belleuse of the same model, shape and design are held in the collections at the Petit Palais, Paris and the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid.
Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse (1848-1913) studied sculpture under his father Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-87) and painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1870 and turned to sculpture in 1889. Like his father, he also worked as a modeller of porcelain, and became art director of the Choisy-le-Roi factory Hautin, Boulanger & Co, one of the renowned French earthenware factories established in 1804 by the Paillard brothers. There he continued in the tradition of his father designing architectural pieces and those of mythological subject.
Pieces by Carrier-Belleuse of the same model, shape and design are held in the collections at the Petit Palais, Paris and the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid.
