René de Saint Marceaux (1845-1915) Portrait of Samuel Pozzi (1846-1918), doctor 1900 Bronze bust with dark brown patina Signed "St MARCEAUX" and dated "1900 Dedicated "to my friend Pozzi H : 43 cm Bibliography : - Lucette Turbet, Sculpter l'intime : René de Saint-Marceaux, 1845-1915, Paris, Harmattan, 2020, bust cited p. 81 ; - Jean-Michel Nectoux, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Véronique Alemany-Dessaint, Les Saint-Marceaux: une famille d'artistes en 1900, cat. exp., Paris, Musée d'Orsay, 20 October 1992-17 January 1993, Reims, Musée des beaux-arts, 12 March-8 June 1993, Paris, RMN, 1992, bust cited p. 37. René de Saint Marceaux was a native of Rheims and regularly visited the city and participated in the exhibitions of the Société des Amis des Arts. He painted portraits of his friends, including that of the doctor Samuel Pozzi in 1900, which he exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts a year later. In 1905, Samuel Pozzi, who had become mayor of the city of Reims, inaugurated the bronze sculpture La Vigne. This allegory of the region so cherished by the sculptor, commissioned from René de Saint Marceaux in 1880, was kept in the Reims Museum of Fine Arts before its installation in the courtyard of the City Hall.