An antique French Victorian bronze sculpture by Emile Chatrousse titled Une Contemporaine, 1878. The fine sculpture depicts a smartly dressed young woman with a high hairstyle, lifting the hem of her dress with one hand. Titled, Signed and dated on the base. Emile Chatrousse, 1829 to 1896, was a French sculptor. Chatrousse was first a student of the painter Alexandre Abel de Pujol at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and made his debut at the Salon of 1848. Thanks to the patronage of the Count of Nieuwerkerke, he was, in 1851, the last student of Francois Rude. His plaster cast of the group of Queen Hortense and her son Louis Napoleon was noticed at the Salon of 1853, and a bronze cast was commissioned by Napoleon III for the Universal Exhibition of 1855. Subsequently, he received numerous public commissions for the Tuileries Palace and the Paris City Hall. After the fall of the Empire, he worked on patriotic subjects. His style then moved towards more modernity and realism. Antique European Bronze Sculptures, Statues, FIgures, And Art Collectibles.