Charles Georges Ferville-Suan

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Charles Georges Ferville-Suan was a French sculptor.

He was born in Le Mans, in Sarthe, on 16 January 1847, and was adopted by the painter Charles Suan.[1] He lived much of his life 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.

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