Anne-Marie PROFILLET (1898-1939). Rooster sketch. Enameled stoneware sculpture signed on the base and on the reverse. Height 19 cm (to be verified). Note: model created in 1938. The plaster cast is part of the Musée de Vire collection (donated by Jeanne Blachas-Profillet, the artist's sister, in 1975). Anne-Marie Profillet quickly set her sights on animal sculpture, taking classes with Edouard Navellier and becoming accustomed to studying outdoors, particularly at the Jardin des Plantes. It was here that she met and befriended François Pompon in 1928. Pompon's characteristics can be seen in her work, with its "smooth" sculpture, and she participates with him in the revival of animal art. Provenance: artist's family.