Auguste MOREAU (1834-1917), Girl fishing for shrimp

SOCIETÉ des BRONZES de PARIS (foundry active 1875-1930)
bronze, patinated cast, painted; height 52 cm, base diameter ca. 22 cm;
attached wooden pedestal, height 100 cm, base 33.5 x 33.5 cm.
France, Paris, 19th/20th century.
Young woman seated on quay rock, barefoot, wearing short dress with neckline exposing shoulders; hair pinned at nape of neck flows down to back. Her left hand supported by a scale, in her right hand a wicker
pick-up on a long handle. Nearby on the left - an oval basket with a stick filled with caught shrimp. Signature: "Auguste Moreau" - on the base at the back; above, a circular foundry mark:
"SOCIETE DES BRONZES DE PARIS". On the brass plate on the front engraved inscription: "PECHEUSE DE CREVETTES / SALON DES BEAUX-ARTS". Pedestal of blackened turned wood in the form of a cannelled column topped with a hemisphere; base and upper top -.
square.