Édouard Drouot studied in Paris from 1880 under Émile Thomas and Matherin Moreau and worked as a genre painter and sculptor. He had a vast repertory and an excellent sense of movement and expression making him an outstanding sculptor at the turn of the century. His Art Nouveau sculptures of plaster, marble, and bronze portrayed sporting and hunting scenes, exotic Eastern subjects, mythological figures, nymphs and whimsical allegories, partly also in monumental size. He received inspiration from his travels to India and North Africa. The submitted bronze statuette Rugby Football appears in different sizes, between 36 and 61 cm high, and shows the French international and Olympian Adolphe Jauréguy.
France