CLEMENCE SOPHIE DE SERMEZY (LYON, 1767-CHARENTAY,... - Lot 40 - Osenat

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CLEMENCE SOPHIE DE SERMEZY (LYON, 1767-CHARENTAY,... - Lot 40 - Osenat
CLEMENCE SOPHIE DE SERMEZY (LYON, 1767-CHARENTAY, 1850), ATTRIBUTED TO. Juliette Récamier Terracotta. Around 1825-1835. Good condition, slight restorations. H. 30.6 x W. 31.2 x D. 16.8 cm. Good condition, slight restorations. Biography : Clémence Sophie de SERMEZY (1767-1850) Born in a wealthy family of the high society of Lyon, her father was administrator of the Octroi, titled Director and general receiver of the royal and patrimonial rights of Lyon. Her mother's uncle was a certain Monsieur Simonard, a great friend of Juliette Récamier's father, with whom de Sermézy would later become friends. She married Marc Antoine Noyel de Béreins, Count de Sermézy, in 1789. In the 1790s, she became a student of Chinard and began to develop her sculptural activities. She quickly acquired a certain local reputation as a sculptor and became an associate member of the Academy of Lyon in 1818. On the occasion of an exhibition for the benefit of the unemployed in 1827, she sent nine terracotta sketches to the Lyon City Hall, as well as her portrait by Pierre Révoil and the sculpture "A Lady Playing the Harp" by Joseph Chinard. These were the only works exhibited during his lifetime by the artist, who never again shared his art. However, his great career includes a large number of statuettes, religious sculptures and beautiful busts, such as that of Eudoxie Deschamps de Villeneuve (1824) or the Portrait of Madame Révoil (1837). The numerous portraits of Lyonnais celebrities that she made have made it possible to identify several of her contemporaries and are now exhibited in the Salon des Fleurs of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. She also held a Salon which became an artistic and cultural center of the city of Lyon and where illustrious personalities of her time, such as Joseph Chinard, Pierre Révoil, Fleury François Richard, Jean-François Bellay, politicians such as Camille Jordan and Jean-Baptiste Dugas-Montbel, and personalities such as François-Joseph Talma, Mathieu de Montmorency-Laval and Germaine de Staël, also gathered. It is even said that Juliette Récamier joined her during her exile...
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