Charles Georges Ferville-Suan

Charles Georges Ferville-Suan was a French sculptor.

Biography

He was born in Le Mans, in Sarthe, on 16 January 1847, and was adopted by the painter Charles Suan. He lived during a certain period in Montmartre, and died in Le Mans on 11 December 1925.

He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris, and was a pupil of François Jouffroy.

He realized medaillons and statuettes, in plaster, marble or bronze. He exhibited at the Salon, as early as 1872, and until 1909, and became a member of the Société des Artistes Français.

In 1878, he married Marie Ernestine Lavieille, daughter of Eugène Lavieille, and landscape painter as her father.

Works
  • L'amour captif, plaster statue. Collections of Le Mans Museums.
  • Le peintre Jaffard, terra-cotta medaillon. Collections of Le Mans Museums.

Bibliography
  • Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie and Louis Auvray. Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours. Renouard, Paris, 1882–1887. Reprint : Garland Publishing Inc., New York & London, 1979.
  • E. Bénézit. Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, 1999, Gründ.
  • André Roussard. Dictionnaire des peintres à Montmartre. Peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs, illustrateurs, plasticiens aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Éditions André Roussard, 1999.
gollark: I think so.
gollark: Isn't it on a TPU VM and not the actual TPU hardware?
gollark: Oh, raytracing, right.
gollark: Isn't Minecraft mostly more CPU-bound than GPU-bound?
gollark: Probably nobody will know what the law says until it's actually tested in court.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.