(1815 - 1892)
French sculptor Pierre Lenordez was born at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, in north-western France. He specialised in statuettes of people and animals, particularly horses, and produced several designs for Duplan et Salles, a Parisian foundry. Lenordez exhibited at the Salon in Paris from 1855 to 1877 and depicted numerous winners of major horse races. Arab stallions, mares and foals also dominated his works. For many of Lenordez’s statuettes, the sculptor fashioned a folded blanket or towel on the ground, upon which the horses name and other data was inscribed. Today, a plaster work by the artist, titled ‘Captain d’Estouteville leaving for the Defence of Mont St-Michel’ is in the museum of Avranches, northwestern France.
