Latest acquisitions of the Musée Jules Desbois

5/4/26 - Acquisitions - Parçay-les-Pins, Musée Jules Desbois - Jules Desbois is undoubtedly one of the finest sculptors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was, however, for a long time, mainly regarded in a very reductive way as one of Auguste Rodin’s practitioners.
While his encounter with the latter, after a classical training at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and in Jules Cavelier’s studio, was decisive in the evolution of his art, he was not only his friend and assistant, but, like other collaborators of Rodin, he had an important career of his own, marked by numerous masterpieces, the most famous of which is La Misère, known in many copies (see the news item of 31/7/20). He was also the author of decorative art objects, often in the Art nouveau style.