JEAN-LOUIS GRÉGOIRE, (FRENCH, 1840 - 1890): A FINE GILT AND SILVERED BRONZE LIFE-SIZE BUST OF A YOUNG GIRL the youthful maiden wearing a hair band adorned with flowers, her drapery falling to reveal her left breast and tied with a rose pin, raised on an outswept, shaped rectangular plinth, signed to the reverse 'L. GREGOIRE 1882', and numbered 35210, 62cm high Currently on display at our South Kensington Gallery until 30 May (on view at Chiswick from 31/5 – 6/6) Jean-Louis Grégoire was born and died in Paris. Training under Salmson at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he exhibited at the Salon from 1867 and became one of the first Associates of the Artistes Français. Gregoire's bronze group of L'Allégro was sold Christie's London, 27th September 2007 lot 191 (£23,000).