Meunier, Constantine (1831 Etterbeek - 1905 Ixelles)

Lot 2549 limit € 280

Cast iron, relief plate with a portrait of a worker in profile, signed top right and dated 1898 top left, foundry stamp "Buderus 1731" on the reverse, L approx. 31, W approx. 28 cm, studied at the Academy in Brussels, 1868 with Charles De Groux and Félicien Rops foundation of the "Société Libre des Beaux-Arts" ibid., from 1880 depiction of working people as sculptors with idealized depictions