Description
This popular bust is of a Victorian woman wearing a hat and attired with multiple large tropical-like flowers. The original sculpture was created by Alfred Jean Foretay (French 1861 – 1944) and this is a wax bronze casting of the original.
Alfred J. Foretay attended the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts and The Paris Salons where his work won awards 1891 through 1904. He studied under Alexandre Faulteire, another well known French artist/sculptor.














