Désiré-Maurice Ferrary
Other names: Usually known as Maurice Ferrary. The catalogue entry for the Leeds exhibition gave his name as 'A. Maurice Ferrary'
Born 1852
Died 1904
Country of birth and death: France
Sculptor, teacher
He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the 1870s and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1882. Ferrary studied at the Villa de Medici in Rome until 1886. He was awarded a number of commissions and in 1891, was made a chevalier de la Légion d’honneur. Ferrary became professor of modelling at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1901.
Ferrary exhibited 'Belluaire agacant une panthere' at the Paris Salon in 1880 which was later cast as a bronze edition by Siot-Decauville (see Pierre Kjellberg, 'Les bronzes des XIXe sicle. Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs', 1987, pp. 314-315). A cast of the model for this work was sold in 2013 by Bonham's. Two other works by Ferrary 'Salammbo' and 'Leda and the Swan' are in the Lady Lever Art gallery, Port Sunlight, National Museums Liverpool.
This entry includes information submitted by Xanthe Brooke. Photographs and details of the work sold at Bonhams are available at https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20902/lot/1165/ [accessed 5 June 2015].
Works
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Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1897
'Belluaire'
Citing this record
'Désiré-Maurice Ferrary', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1208299742, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
