Large Vintage L & F Moreau Hand Painted Spelter Boy Table Lamp

Description

The boy has thick curly hair and is wearing brown shorts with a straw hat on his back. He stands … more The boy has thick curly hair and is wearing brown shorts with a straw hat on his back. He stands barefoot holding a flower in his left hand. Flanking his left is a column wrapped in flowers of pastel pink and green. It is signed L&F Moreau, and marked with a seal that reads "Collection Francaise“. There is a matching lamp featuring a girl which is also listed on this site.

Brothers Louis and Francois Moreau were sculptors from Dijon, France. Louis worked in bronze and metal sculpture while Francois was a painter and sculptor. The molds from the Moreau Brothers were hidden from the Nazis during WWII. After the war, J. B. Hirsch went to Europe and bought the molds and brought them to America and started a company called Collection Francaise.

DIMENSIONS:
10ʺW × 8ʺD × 24”H (bottom of base to top of head)
Height is 50” as pictured with shade less