AFTER ADRIEN GAUDEZ (1845-1902) Jean-Baptiste Poquelin dit Molière, jeune, en tapissier. Proof in brown patinated bronze. Signed on the terrace and inscribed "Susse Fdrs". Round rotating base. H. 39 cm. Minor dents and scratches. At the 1888 and 1892 Salons, Adrien Gaudez presented a Molière as a child, abandoning his father's upholstery trade. In his article on the Figaro Salon of May 4, 1892, Emile Bergerat wrote: "A delightful little Molière, in a surprisingly observed child's pose, reading some old translation of Plautus or Terence, his upholsterer's hammer in hand. If the Comédie-Française doesn't buy this for its collection, it's because it's stupid. "La maison Susse will create three models of three different sizes of the little Molière.