Edouard FIERS, Bronze sculpture "Cupid emerging from a shell" signed

Bronze sculpture "Cupid emerging from a shell" signed.
Edouard FIERS (1826-1894).
Bronze with golden and brown patina.
Cupid emerging from a shell riding a dolphin. In front of him are his well-known attributes, the bow and arrows.
H.40cm - L.34cm.
D. Base 22cm.

Born in 1822, à Edouard Fiers began his studies at the Academy of Ypres, his home town. He then continued his apprenticeship at the Brussels Academy and with sculptors Louis Jéhotte, Guillaume Geefs and Eugène Simonis. He created busts, funerary monuments and public monuments, the most striking of which is undoubtedly the fountain paying tribute to Charles de Brouckère, erected in 1866 at the Porte de Namur. Fiers moved to Schaerbeek, where he lived at no. 276 chaussée de Haecht and had his studio in rue Creuse. He died in Schaerbeek in 1894. To pay tribute to him, a street near the Josaphat park bears his name.