Artist name Le Duc, Arthur Jacques
Sex: m
Artist occupation: sculptor
Other occupation: Advocate
Geographical data: France
State: France
Date of birth: 1848.03.27
Place of birth: Torigny-sur-Vire
Date of death: 1918.02.20
Place of death: Antibes
Place(s) cited: St-Lô; Caen; Vannes; Formigny; Marlotte;
Bayeux
He studied under Lenordez, Guillard, Dumont, Barye and Carolus
Duran and exhibited at the Salon from 1878 onwards. He won
third class medal in 1879 and got a silver medals at the
Expositions of 1889 and 1900. He became a chevalier of the
Legion of Honour in 1906 and an associate of the Société
Nationale des Beaux Arts in 1893. He specialized in animal
and genre groups, such as Familial Piety, Standing Stag,
Mare and Foal.
Lenordez and Barye trained this skillful animal sculptor
at the école. Between 1873 and1914 he exhibited a
rather large number of bronzes at the Salon: Diane de Poitiers
partant pour la chasse (1877). Centaure et bacchante (1879),
and Le Baiser an equestrian group, 65 cm; Harde de cerfs
écoutant le rapproché. A monumental group
placed today in the Luxembourg gardens (1886), Au bois,
an equestrian study (1887), Laitière normande (1888),
and Ultimus pro patria spiritus part of the monument to
the dead from Calvados (1889), Le Baron J. Finot (1912),
and Un compagnon de Duguesclin, an equestrian statue (1914).
It is also necessary to note some figures and studies in
plaster, such as Porte-Etendard à cheval, a project
for a monument to the armies of Reishoffen (1873), La Raison
du plus fort, a group of horses (1874). Two groups representing
hunting scenes (1875), and Horace Vernet sur la champ de
bataille d'Isly, an equestrian statue (1913). Leduc also
participated, from 1890 to 1907, at the Salon of the Société
Nationale des Beaux-Arts with some animals and equestrian
portraits. Some are in plaster and others, quite numerous,
in ceramic sandstone. He also made an equestrian statue
of the Connétable de Richmond in bronze, destined
for the city of Vannes.
The Thiébaut foundry cast the following works in
bronze:
Cheval de trait, 41 cm.
Chien poitevin, 33 cm.
Chien vendéen, 27 cm.
Croix de veneur, 42 cm.
Harde de cerfs, 79 and 36 cm.
Plateau orné d'une course de chevaux, 38 x 27 cm.
Saint-Hubert; bas-relief. 139 x 86 and 80 x 50 cm.
Le Porte-Etendard de Reichshoffen was also cast in bronze,
60 cm.
MUSEUMS
Abbeville
Chien en arrêt devant une grenouille, 24 x 46 cm.
Caen
Centaure et bacchante, life size.
Cherbourg
Saint-Hubert.
Sens
Deux Chiens à l'attache, 37 x 43 cm.
