Raphael

Jean-Jacques Feuchère is known for his elegant modelling of bronze art objects, decorative statuettes and knickknacks of all sorts designed to adorn middle-class homes. The July Monarchy saw the rise of a new fashion for small bronzes, which replaced biscuit-ware on mantelpieces and as table centrepieces and clock decorations. Seated in the meditative pose appropriate to great men, Raphael is here shown casually pointing to a sketch of one of his Madonnas. The Italian Renaissance master, the very image of perennially youthful genius, was almost a cult figure throughout the nineteenth century.