Léon BUREAU
1866–1906, France

Bureau was born in Limoges, France on 14 September 1866. He spent time in Paris studying at the École de Beaux-Arts and also received schooling at the atelier of the figurative sculptor and painter Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière, known for his influence on the 19th Century movement of French sculpture towards realism. Bureau specialized in animal sculpture and first exhibited at the Salon in Paris in 1884. He sometimes used the foundry the Societe des Bronzes de Paris to cast his works, including Stalking Tiger, c. 1900 and Woodcock. Other examples of his bronzes include: Horse and Jockey, c. 1890, Cock Pheasant, and Spaniel on the Move.
Bureau died in Limoges on 26 May 1906.

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