Julien-Louis Mérot (1876 - 1956) Portrait of Louis Dumas (1877-1952) in profile Bronze medallion. Signed "JL Merot ROME 1907". Inscribed "LOUIS DUMAS COMPOSITEUR DE MUSIQUE". Diameter: 15 cm in a wooden frame L. 24 x W. 22 cm Provenance : Louis Dumas Collection. By descent. Appraised by LACROIX-JEANNEST - Alexandre Lacroix et Élodie Jeannest de Gyvès. Like Jean-Baptiste Larrivé, Julien-Louis Mérot, Grand Prix de Rome in 1905, shared the daily life of musician Louis Dumas at the Villa Médicis. This bronze medallion bears witness to the friendly interdisciplinary complicity of the resident students at the Académie de France in Rome.