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Émile Guillemin
Bust of an Oriental woman

circa 1880

About the Item

Bust of an Oriental woman by Emile GUILLEMIN (1841-1907) Orientalist bronze sculpture with triple patina, gilded, dark reddish brown and silvered. France circa 1880 total height 63 cm Biography : Emile-Coriolan Guillemin (1841-1907) was a Parisian sculptor. He did his artistic apprenticeship with his father Emile-Marie-Auguste Guillemin, then with the sculptor Jean-Jules Salmson. He began at the Salon of French Artists in 1870, with two Roman gladiator plasters, whose bronze casts were acquired by the State for the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He collaborated with the great art editing companies, such as Barbedienne or Christofle. Guillemin continued to exhibit at the Salon until the end of the 1890s, where he exhibited a series of busts of oriental women in bronze. These busts were part of the Orientalist movement and therefore a particular context: Guillemin travelled in North Africa and the Mediterranean basin in order to list the anthropological characteristics of different local cultures, as Charles Cordier did a few years earlier.
  • Creator:
    Émile Guillemin (1841 - 1907)
  • Creation Year:
    circa 1880
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 24.81 in (63 cm)Width: 13.78 in (35 cm)Depth: 9.85 in (25 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    PARIS, FR
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: N.63461stDibs: LU2514213411522