Académie des Beaux Arts

Sword of academician of Mr François SICARD, (Tours, 1862 - Paris, 1934) Beautiful gilt bronze mounting signed "R. BAUDICHON". Pommel with sides, decorated with a castle on white enamel with waves, topped with foliage. Chiseled fuse of a peasant woman with her sickle and sheaf of flowers; on the back, mallet and sculptor's attributes on a background of rushes, maintained by a ribbon, dated "1924" on the nOeud de corps. Guard with a branch and quillon chiseled in high relief of laurel leaves. Keyboard representing a city (probably Tours). Triangular blade engraved with foliage, trophies and palms. Scabbard covered with black leather with two trimmings. Gilded brass cap, cut out, decorated with the line; oval button of cap decorated with the letters "FS" interlaced enamelled white; engraved on the back: "Sword of François Sicard elected to the academy of the Fine Arts on February 9, 1924". Bouterolle engraved with the line in continuation. Dart in ball. Length : 93,5 cm. T.B.E. François-Léon Sicard (or more frequently François Sicard), (Tours, 1862 - Paris 1934), French sculptor. Winner of the Prix de Rome in 1891. Sicard was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1892 to 1895. He was elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1930. He was the appointed sculptor of Georges Clemenceau whose bust he made. René Baudichon, (Tours, 1878-Paris, 1963), French sculptor, medalist and caricaturist. Grand-nephew of Bishop Joseph Baudichon, who baptized him René Baudichon. Studied at the School of Fine Arts in Tours, then in 1897 at the School of Fine Arts in Paris where he was a student of Louis-Ernest Barrias, François-Léon Sicard and Frédéric de Vernon. Member of the artistic and literary society Le Cornet, he signed "Boby" a number of caricatures between 1903 and 1923. Knight of the Legion of Honor