Louis-Charles-Hippolyte Buhot, 1815-1865

Louis-Charles-Hippolyte Buhot (1815-1826) was a pupil of David d'Angers. Buhot entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts at the age of seventeen. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon from 1837 until the year he died when he exhibited the original plaster of the offered lot. It has been suggested that Buhot's Hebe and Jupiter's Eagle takes inspiration from Francois Rude's interpretation of the same theme which he created for his native city of Dijon, which was unveiled in 1855.