Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Danse au Tambourin

About the Item

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse 1824 - 1887 Danse au Tambourin signed Carrier Belleuse bronze height: 72.4cm. diameter: 26.7cm. Provenance Important American collection. The present composition is one of Carrier-Belleuse's most successful and playful groups, and it was clearly inspired by the Bacchanal groups that Clodion executed during the 18th century. Carrier-Belleuse is the name used by this sculptor--born Carrier de Belleuse--on his mature pieces, after initially signing works "A. Carrier." His formal education took place at the Petite Ecole--chosen after an unhappy stint at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1840 under the direction of David d'Angers, his official master. While at the Petite Ecole in the 1840s, Carrier-Belleuse began his lifelong practice of providing commercial houses with models for edition, as statuettes or as ornament for functional pieces. The neo-baroque realism of his heroic monuments differs signally from the neo-rococo preciousness, material richness, and vivacity for which he is best known. For all his association with rococo sensuality, Carrier-Belleuse's mastery at articulating form gave as much vitality and appeal to the marbles carved from his models as to his many works in clay and bronze. The sculptor sold finished serial work directly through his studio and at auction, and thus counted among the most actively entrepreneurial of his fellow professionals. His models and published designs integrated the human figure within functional forms--torchères and table service, for instance--in a variety of styles, and with imagination and verve; they were commercially successful and influential for decades. C A charter member of the new professional organization for the applied arts (the Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l'Industrie), founded in the early 1860s, he was enormously important in elevating the stature of the applied arts and for the sheer quality of his ornamental design. For that contribution to France alone the artist was promoted to officer of the Légion d'Honneur in 1885.

Creator:
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824 - 1887, French)
Dimensions:
Height: 28.51 in (72.4 cm)Width: 10.52 in (26.7 cm)
Medium:
Bronze
Movement & Style:
French School
Period:
Mid-19th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Tallinn, EE
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2243213538792
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