HENRI PLÉ | LA BECQUÉE (GIRL FEEDING HER CHICKENS)

A Parisian by birth, Henri-Honoré Plé studied under Géricault and Mathurin Moreau. He exhibited figures and projects for memorials at the Salon from 1877, winning honourable mentions in 1879 and 1889, as well as third and second class medals in 1880 and 1898 respectively. He also received a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. This enchanting marble representing a pastoral subject forms a contrast to the proud and powerful masculine figures with which Plé is primarily associated.