CLOVIS DELACOUR (FRENCH, 1859-1929)

Clovis Delacour was born in Châtillon-sur-Seine and worked in Paris. He studied under Augustin-Jean Moreau-Vauthier (d. 1893), perhaps the most celebrated French ivoirier during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Delacour, who worked in Paris, also became well known for his work becoming a member of the Société des Artistes Français in 1892, receiving a commendation at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, and exhibiting at the Royal Academy in London. The present statuette of Psyche or Nymph with vase compares closely to an ivory of Nude with Butterfly in the The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Delacour’s masterpiece Andromeda, is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool.