CHARLES JEAN MARIE DE GEORGE (FRENCH, 1837-1888)

This is a rare bronze reduction of the full size marble by Charles Degeorge of the Young Aristotle exhibited at the 1875 Paris Salon, where it was bought by the French state and later shown at the 1878 Paris Exposition universelle and displayed at the Tuileries gardens. Today the marble is in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay (RF 208, LUX 35).