Beautiful plaster cast statue from the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs Atelier de Moulage in Paris. See stamp.

19th Century, France

Dimensions: 14" W x 18" H x 9" D

The UCAD and the molding workshop are now part of Les Arts Decoratifs. The name changed but it stays true to its original aims of safeguarding the collections, promoting culture, providing art education and professional training, and supporting design.

For more than two centuries, the molding workshop has been reproducing masterpieces of sculpture from antiquity to the present day. Founded in 1794 to extend the missions of the Louvre Museum, its vocation is to spread moldings of great fidelity. It preserves and exploits one of the largest collections in the world consisting of more than 6,000 molds made from original sculptures held in the largest French and European collections.

Ref. MADparis.fr