GEORGE GARDET
A SEVRES BISCUIT GROUP, CIRCA 1890
Lotto 247
3 0005 000
with Stamp Dore A Sevres, S91, crown with nine spikes on a base. H: 30 cm, L: 45 cm
Provenance: Private Collection, Monaco
Powerful and vigurous, with extremely delicate details, and fine finish, this
important hunting scene represents a wild boar attacked by dogs in hard
biscuit paste, resting on a blue enamelled porcelain base.
Executed by the sculptor and animalier Gardet for Sevres, the group has
probably been customized for the final customer, with a heraldic symbol
depicted on the base, crown with nine spikes.
Born in Paris, George Gardet (1863-1939) was a highly talented sculptor,
son of the sculptor Joseph Gardet. Gardet studied under Aime Millet and
Emmanuel Fremiet at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Movement and dynamism
of the late works of Antoine Louis Barye are also evident in this combat
group, unlike many other artists of that time, who produced static animal
figures.
Gardet started to exibit at the Salon des Artistes Frances in 1883 at the age
twenty and continued exhibiting throughout his long carrier. He received
the Grand Prix at 1900 Exposition Universelle. Many of this works were
produced in unglazed porcelain by Sevres factory. He is considered by
many as the finest animal sculptor of the late Animalier period.