Help with Statues

First post here but looking for information on a couple of statues we got in on donation at Habitat for Humanity ReStore. Our vision is Everyone deserves an affordable place to call home. These two statues came in and are very heavy so I believe they are bronze. They are about 2 feet tall and 6 inches wide at the base. I can only find images of these as lamps but these are only statues. Any help is appreciated.

 

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Welcome Cathie. You could have given us a leg up if you had provided the link for the lamps:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/254509954090

What more do you want to know? They may be cold cast bronze.

 

L. F. Moreau, Paris, France. Look them up and you will find many, many pieces of their work. (Moreau family of sculptors.) Sorry I can't help with anything definite. They are beautiful.

 

L. F Moreau according to this worthpoint
L. F. Moreau Signed Bronze French Sculpture Woman w/ Harp 17" Marble Base | #1927447853 (worthpoint.com)

Ooops Not fast enough

 

I think the company that made them might be L & F Moreau. They could be bronze, but I don't know why someone would paint them if they were. They could also be spelter, but that is a much lighter metal.

 

You out typed me!

 

the lamp part looks fixed to the woman's head...so these were not made as lamps...


I think they may be spelter and not bronze...

 

Here they are as lamps again, with one of the worst sets of seller pix I've ever seen:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/383832353474

 

It is a VERY bad idea to list for sale and then do your research.

 

Louis Auguste & François Moreau. brothers from the Moreau clan that did castings too.
plenty around and in different qualities.
round wooden socle points to copy after 1945.
good copies from the 1920s and 1930s had Daum glasses.