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Medium: Metal
Hi-Beam 1 - Modern Steel Geometric Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Inspired by dance and weightlessness, Granville Beals' industrial metal sculptures are primarily about relationships. Concerned with form and abstraction, he does not merely manipula...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Earth, 72" high bronze
Located in Loveland, CO
Earth by Jane DeDecker
Allegorical Element Figurative Bronze
72x32x20" bronze ed/17 (available patina is a darker blue-grey hue)
Shipping price includes the custom packing/crating n...
Category
2010s Impressionist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"The Party" Bronze Sculpture 23" x 18" x 13" Edition 5/8 by Huang Yulong
By Huang Yulong
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Party" Bronze Sculpture 23" x 18" x 13" Edition 5/8 by Huang Yulong
23 × 13 × 18 in
58 × 33 × 45 cm
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Huang Yulong was born in 1983 in Anhui Province, China. In...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sappho Leaning Against a Column Holding Her Lyre by Pradier in French Bronze
Located in New York, NY
French bronze of Sappho Leaning Against a Column Holding Her tortoise Lyre, Original rich brown patina intact.
Artist: Jean Jacques Pradier (Swi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Femme de Mequinez
Located in New York, NY
HENRI-HONORÉ PLÉ
French, 1853-1922
Femme de Mequinez
An important orientalist polychrome patinated bronze bust sculpture with gilt highlights surmounted on rouge marble.
H 26 ...
Category
Late 19th Century Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Plaque White-tailed deer
Located in PARIS, FR
White-tailed deer
by Antoine-Louis BARYE (1796-1875)
Electroplating bronze plaque with a brown patina
Signed "Barye"
Period cast from the "Barye's workshop" (made during the artist'...
Category
1870s French School Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
American Bronze Sculpture of Male Nude Athlete during Shot Put.
Located in New York, NY
Clemente Spampinato, born in 1912 in Calabria, Italy, was a versatile artist and sports enthusiast. He created Bronze Trophies and Medallions for the Olympics and Italian sporting events in the 1930s and '40s. After becoming a U.S. citizen in 1947, he moved to New York, where he channeled his artistic passion into capturing the essence of the American West, specializing in sports and Western-themed sculptures. His work, celebrated for its realism and dynamic portrayal of athletic movements, is exhibited in museums, galleries, and private collections across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Selected sculptures can be seen in various locations, including Washington DC, Cooperstown, NY, Canton, OH, New Orleans, LA, and the complete collection is on display in Sea Cliff, New York.
Large Bronze Nude Of Male Athlete During A Shot Put...
Category
1950s Academic Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Silvered Bronze Figure of Psyche
Located in New York, NY
MATHURIN MOREAU
French, (1822-1914)
Silvered Bronze Figure of Psyche
Silvered bronze; Signed ‘Moreau Mathurin’
30 3/8 x 15 x 13 inches
Category
Late 19th Century Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cameleon -original modern wildlife animal bronze sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Step into the world of camoufl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Floats and Feathers 2/12
By Kevin Box
Located in Napa, CA
“It took two years of tireless experimentation for me to develop the process of casting paper into bronze, another seven years to perfect, and it continues to evolve today.” - Kevin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Stainless Steel
Contemporary, stainless steel sculpture, Leapfrog, contemporary sculpture.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Polished Stainless Steel, and Signed and numbered, Edition 5/9
Bold, energetic, and playfully powerful, Leapfrog by Irina Daylene captures a striking moment of dynamic balance and ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by Irakli Tsuladze - Infinity
Located in Paris, IDF
Bronze, granite & glass
Irakli Tsuladze is a Georgian sculptor born in 1973 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. His sculptures present a peculiar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Reclining Doe
Located in PARIS, FR
Reclining Doe
by Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875)
Bronze sculpture with a nuanced dark brown patina
signed "Barye" on the base
old edition cast – probably from the Barye's workshop (...
Category
1860s French School Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Polo Player Bookends in Bronze
Located in Brookville, NY
Polo Bookends in bronze for the sporty library. These were purchased from the collection of a polo player on Long Island who had a beautiful library of sporting books. He also owne...
Category
1960s Academic Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Archer and Centaur
Located in New York, NY
Pierre Traverse
Archer and Centaur
c. 1969
Bronze
17 x 16 x 7 in, 45 x 41 x 17 cm
It is signed by the artist and is an "Epreuve d'artiste" (EA) 3/4
Edition 3/4
Category
1960s Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$18,000 Sale Price
52% Off
Femme chiffonnée monumentale
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, metal, bronze patina
Display: The s...
Category
1950s Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
"The Rape of Sabina" Large Bronze Sculpture Bottega Romana Grand Tour
Located in Pistoia, IT
"The Rape of Sabina," large bronze group with brown patina, Roman workshop of the second half of the 18th century, circle of Francesco Righetti (Rome 1749-1819).
The exceptional qu...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Thinking Man, 13"high bronze
By Denny Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
"Thinking Man" by Denny Haskew
Figurative Bronze (After Egon Schiele)
13x11x7" ed/15
"Thinking Man
puzzeled over this being
a flock of clouds
are in my head.
people are everywhere,
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Doves, Atelier, Red
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Richard MacDonald has always been intrigued by opposites and he has the range to be able to create both sculptures of delicate, archetypal femininity and powerful, athletic masculini...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Copacabana
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Copacabana presents Erté's vision of fantasy, splendor, and femininity in a statuesque model wearing a cabaret costume. The gown is noted for its luxuriant richness and design. Softe...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$9,850
Girl Sitting X -contemporary bronze sculpture, nude female on wooden block
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Girl Sitting X" is a bronze sculpture of a nude sitting female on a wooden block. Edition 18, signed, numbered and dated on the bottom. The wooden block can be hung on a wall (come...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kneeler
By Joy Brown
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 8
Artist Statement:
My figures speak to me of that peaceful place in myself - calm, open, aware.
My art reflects the influence of my childhood in Japan and of the rigor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$16,000
Caress of Love
Located in PARIS, FR
"Caress of Love"
by Albert-Ernest CARRIER-BELLEUSE (1824-1887)
Bronze group sculpture with a nuanced dark brown patina
Signed on the back "A. Carrier-Belleuse"
Reposing on its orig...
Category
1870s French School Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Joel Urruty - Free form #3, Sculpture 2024
By Joel Urruty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium: bleached poplar
As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and surface are used as the visual languag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Large Rusted Steel Wall Mounted Sculpture " A Blue Day for Anabelle"
By Uwe Pfaff
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A life size, rusted steel sculpture, edition 3/5. This sculpture is wall-mounted and is hung on a wall as a painting would be hung. It stands about 20mm away from the wall, creating ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
WATER RIFLE - Modern obiect sculpture made of steel and fabric
Located in Salzburg, AT
Sylwia Jakubowska-Szycik is professor at the Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia in Gdańsk, she conducts classes in the f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
"ONE BELL" Sculptural Lamp 13" x 6" inch by Grigorii Gorkovenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"ONE BELL" Sculptural Lamp 13" x 6" inch by Grigorii Gorkovenko
MATERIAL: casting / bronze
COLOR: natural bronze / patinated bronze
One lampshade.
Lampshade only.
Wires and light...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Leona by Marie Louise Sorbac - Animal bronze sculpture, lioness, black colour
Located in Paris, FR
Leona is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Marie Louise Sorbac, dimensions are 65 × 36 × 46 cm (25.6 × 14.2 × 18.1 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is par...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Trois Temps Three Times Horse Galop Bronze Sculpture Animal In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Trois Temps Three Times Horse Galop Bronze Sculpture Animal In Stock
Lucie Sentjens (Brussels, 1959) is a sculptor, graduated from the Cambre in 1982 in the studio of Rik Poot.
She ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bob Fosse
Located in Wien, 9
John William Mills (born 4 March 1933, London) is an English sculptor.
He studied at Hammersmith School of Art, 1947–54, and at the Royal College of Art, 1956–60. He was a resident ...
Category
20th Century Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$3,042
Fire, 72" high bronze
Located in Loveland, CO
Fire by Jane DeDecker
Allegorical Element Figurative Bronze with Gold Leaf
72x14x20" bronze ed/17 (available patina is the darker blue-grey hue)
Shipping price includes the custom p...
Category
2010s Impressionist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Three Bags Full" Silver-colored bronze depiction of a sheep.
By Wayne Salge
Located in Edgartown, MA
The historic tradition of cast bronze provides a contemporary avenue for the creation of Wayne Salge’s abstracted human and animal figures. Thoroughly modern and distinctly impressio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by Irakli Tsuladze - Muse
Located in Paris, IDF
Bronze & Marble
Irakli Tsuladze is a Georgian sculptor born in 1973 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. His sculptures present a peculiar unity of substance and emotions, whe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$2,240 Sale Price
20% Off
'General (Napoleon)' original bronze sculpture by Doris Jarowsky 1960s abstract
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This small-scale bronze of the General Napoleon by American artist Doris Jarowsky is an excellent example of the sculpture of the 1960s. The sculpture i...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Walking Cat - Large Scale Bronze Animal Sculpture with Mosaic Patterned Surface
By Mary Block
Located in Chicago, IL
Mary Block
Walking Cat
bronze
39h x 65w x 15d in
99.06h x 165.10w x 38.10d cm
MBK001
Mary Block
b. 1951, St. Louis, MO
Education
1975 Mechanical Engineering Department, Stainless Steel Casting in Cooperation with Alloy Casting Corporation.
University of Illinois - Champaign
1974 Master of Fine Arts Candidate. School of Fine Arts. University of Iowa.
1973 Bachelor of Fine Arts. College of Fine Arts. University of Illinois – Champaign
Exhibitions
2022 Kiss Me, Its Snowing, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
Illinois Artists’ List, Curator: K. Eaton.
Mary Block Sculpture and Print: A Dialogue Between Form and Image. University of Illinois.
School of Art and Design, Link Gallery. Champaign/Urbana.
1996 ASID Showcase, Chicago, IL
1995 New Glass Review, Corning Museum. Corning, NY. International Exhibition/Catalog featuring innovative glass
sculpture.
1996 Solo Exhibition, Nina Own Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Gallery Artists, Nina Owen Gallery. Chicago, IL
1995 Gallery Artists, Nina Owen Gallery. Chicago, IL
1995 Sandy and Dave, Group Exhibition. North Shore/Skokie Sculpture Park. Skokie, IL
1994 Sandy and Dave, Group Exhibition. North Shore/Skokie Sculpture Park. Skokie, IL
1992 Twenty Women, Adler Cultural Center. Libertyville, IL
1991 The Discerning Eye-National Exhibition, Charles A. Wustum Museum. Racine, WI
1988 North Shore Skokie Sculpture Walk, Curator: J. Folise. McCormick Blvd, Skokie, IL
Public Commissions
2022 Skyway Prints, Delta Airlines. Skyway Lounge, O’Hare Airport, Chicago, IL
2018 Mindfulness Center Sculpture, Roslyn Road School, Barrington. IL
2011 Grove School Children’s Amphitheater, Ft. Grove School, Barrington, IL
2007 Generations, Village Hall of Deerfield, Deerfield, IL
1999 Lifetime Learners, Danville Community College. Danville, IL
1997 Heroic Women Collection, Las Sendes Sculpture Park, Phoenix, AZ
1996 Wrapped Figure, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Book With Hands Memorial, Oak Grove...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Embrace", miniature bronze statue by Tom Merrifield
Located in Norwich, GB
Bronze miniature statue by Tom Merryfield marked No 67/95
Tom left the stage and took up drawing and sculpting as a full-time occupation and has never looked back. He has sculpted m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bee Cause #50- Kevin Box and Beth Johnson
By Kevin Box
Located in Napa, CA
“It took two years of tireless experimentation for me to develop the process of casting paper into bronze, another seven years to perfect, and it continues to evolve today.” - Kevin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Maurice Bouval Art Nouveau Gilt Bronze Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Maurice Bouval (Fr. 1863-1916) Art Nouveau sculpture.
French Art Nouveau Gilt-Bronze Figure of a Woman
Cast by E. Colin & Cie., Paris, circa 1900
Possibly Pandora, modeled rising ou...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Marathonienne
Located in PARIS, FR
Philippe Hiquily (1925 – 2013) is a French artist and designer known for biomorphic furniture and sculptures. He was able to combine modernist design, insect physiognomy, and human s...
Category
2010s Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by Rezo Khasia - Torso
Located in Paris, IDF
Bronze & wood sculpture
Rezo Khasia is a Georgian artist born in 1947 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. The sculptures performed by him are generalized and minimalist. He Uses as a working material the bronze, wood, stone, metal and general energy, which perfectly perfects both exterior and interior spaces. All sculpture itself is made of solid material. He has implemented many creative projects both in Georgia and abroad, participated in both domestic and international exhibitions, exhibitions-competitions, symposia and architectural-creative competitions. He has been awarded from numerous creative awards and prizes as Grand Prix - Work Muse International Sculpture Symposium in Nadiotadi, Hungary, I Prize - International Exhibition-Competition Olympiad-2004 in Tbilisi, Georgia, Grand Prix in Sculpture - International Exhibition at Blue Gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Fiber wall sculpture: 'Nature'
Located in New York, NY
Federica Patera & Andrea Sbra Perego, bridge language and cosmogony. Starting from a single linguistic element like a verbal root, they trace its evolution around the world and throu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
"Pair of Lovers" 9.25" bronze sculpture on wooden base by Moshe Sternschuss
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Pair of Lovers" bronze sculpture on wooden base of male and female seated figures by artist Moshe Sternschuss. Signature Sternschuss and edition number 153/200 inscribed on side of ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kiora by Jacques Owczarek - Animal bronze sculpture, bear, geometric
Located in Paris, FR
Kiora is a bronze sculpture of a bear by contemporary artist Jacques Owczarek.
Dimensions are 19.5 × 34 × 14 cm (7.7 × 13.4 × 5.5 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kindred
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1961
Jane DeDecker’s energetic and dynamic bronze sculptures serve as a reflection of her own life experiences and those of her closely-knit family. Her twelve nieces and nephews are the primary source of her inspiration, though DeDecker’s sculptures are not portraits. In fact, her loose style leaves her viewers with room for interpretation, so as to see their own lives within her sculptures. This imprecision, combined with her unique ability to capture specific moments to which each viewer can relate on a personal level, regardless of age, give DeDecker’s work a timeless quality that spans generations.
DeDecker began her artistic training as a painter at the University of Northern Colorado, until a professor, noticing her joy in the portrayal of shapes and forms, suggested she try her hand at sculpture. Taking his advice, DeDecker went on to study at Gobelins School of Tapestry in Paris...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lynx inside and outdoor sculpture unique black wrough iron feline cat natural
By Ivan Zanoni
Located in Milan, IT
The sculpture is a unique, unrepeatable piece. Can be an outdoor sculpture.
The Lynx belongs to the cycle dedicated to local animals that the sculptor has been working on.
The artwork has just been exhibited in the prestigious museum in Rovereto, the Mart, Italy's leading museum of modern and contemporary art.
It has been created with a technique that the artist has perfected over his long experience. Furthermore, he learnt a few technical skills from his father, a sculptor of wrought iron too. A few artworks made by father and son are in significant private and public collections, the best known of which is the Melinda and Bill Gates...
Category
2010s Realist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Grande Baroquial (Acropolis)
By Arman
Located in PARIS, FR
Grande Baroquial (Acropolis)
by Armand FERNANDEZ known as ARMAN (1928-2005)
Accumulation of cuts of miniature cellos, welded bronze, patinated gold,
signed "Arman"
numbered "71/100"...
Category
1980s French School Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled (Horse)
By Deborah Butterfield
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A wall sculpture by Deborah Butterfield. This Untitled (Horse) wall sculpture is constructed from sticks and paper on wire armature by contem...
Category
1980s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Anatomy of a Golfer I, Atelier
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
The Anatomy of a Golfer l, Atelier is the first in Richard MacDonald's series of golfers that were inspired by the creation of his heroic sculpture, M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Gymnast (bust), Bronze Sculpture
Located in Aventura, FL
Bronze sculpture with marble base. Incised artist signature and date. Sculpture size 13.5 x 7 x 6 inches (including base). Sculpture is in excellent condition (marble base has a c...
Category
1980s Surrealist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$4,875 Sale Price
25% Off
Monkey Match Holder
Located in PARIS, FR
Monkey Match Holder
by Christophe FRATIN (1801-1864)
Bronze with nuanced brown patina
Signed on the base "Fratin"
Old edition cast
France
circa 1850
height 14,5 cm
width 10 cm
dep...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Géraldine
By Patrick Brun
Located in Pasadena, CA
Patrick BRUN was born in Paris in 1941. After obtaining his Engineering degree, he began his professional life as a teacher in mathematics and physics. After this period, he started ...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$4,742 Sale Price
20% Off
Fiber wall sculpture: 'Maya'
Located in New York, NY
Federica Patera & Andrea Sbra Perego, bridge language and cosmogony. Starting from a single linguistic element like a verbal root, they trace its evolution around the world and throu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Evangeline - expressive, textured, female, figurative, paper Mache sculpture
By Paul Duval
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Paul Duval’s engaging sculpted figures capture an emotional moment in time. One in a series of table-top pieces, the Quebec artist uses paper mache, wire and steel to create unique characters expressed through their colour, posture, and gesture. This figure of a woman, clothed in a long royal blue...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Gemini, Bronze Horse Sculpture by Jean Richardson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jean Richardson, American (1940 - )
Title: Gemini
Year: 1989
Medium: Bronze Sculpture
Edition: 10
Size: 18 x 19 x 12 in. (45.72 x 48.26 x 30.48 cm)
Base: 3 x 12 x 12 inches
Category
1980s Abstract Impressionist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Bruno Zach
By Bruno Zach
Located in New York, NY
Cold Painted Austrian Bronze Table Lamp and Sculpture of a lounging Arab man.
Signed with one of Zach's pseudonyms "K. Salat"
Size: 16 1/2 inches high
Artist Bio:
Bruno Zach (6 Ma...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Sailing Towards You" contemporary figurative bronze wall sculpture love sea
By Mireia Serra
Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong
Sailing Towards You is a wall sculpture. It can also be placed on a flat surface, for example on a shelf.
Edition Size: 18. Sculpture for wall easily hung with 2 screws/nails.
BIOG...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Portrait of Suzanne Vérité
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of Suzanne Vérité
by Marcel GIMOND (1894-1961)
Bronze sculpture with a nuanced green patina
signed on the neck "M. Gimond"
cast by "Bisceglia, cire perdue" (with the foundr...
Category
1940s French School Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Louvre, Bronze after P. Julien Executed from a Marble Ordered by Marie-Antoinette
Located in Paris, FR
This splendid sculpture represents Young Girl with a Goat (Amalthea and Jupiter's Goat), after the original by Pierre Julien commissioned by Louis XVI in 1785 and completed in 1787 for the cot of Queen Marie-Antoinette in Rambouillet. The work of the sculptor Pierre Julien decorated the interior of a grotto in a pavilion decorated with bas-reliefs by the same sculptor
(acquired by the State by dation in 2003). The work was the main element of a rock basin, which was destroyed during the renovation of the gardens of the small castle.
The same sculpture was seized during the Revolution and exhibited in the Louvre from 1829. The terracotta sketch, which belonged to the collector Ernst May, must have adorned his château de la Couharde (Yvelines) before entering the Louvre's collections in 1920.
The bronze set with a beautiful gilded patina presented here is a work after the original by Pierre Julien (1731-1804) and dates from the 19th century (around 1850).
The superbly preserved sculpture, which has belonged to the same family since its acquisition, is presented on its original base in grey serpentine marble.
The quality of this work is doubly certified:
- on the one hand it is stamped with a round stamp at the top "A. This stamp is a sign of high quality. Achille Collas (1794 - 1859) was the French engineer, engraver and illustrator, inventor among other things of the patented mathematical reduction process of the 19th century to reproduce sculpted objects in reduction, which was very successful. He was awarded a prize at the 1855 exhibition: his "Procédé mécanique", the name under which he prints all his productions, is easily recognisable by the finesse of its execution and by the famous stamp which appears on the base (terrace) of this sculpture.
- On the other hand, an important signature is found on the terrace of the sculpture "F. Barbedienne Fondeur", founder. In 1844, Achille Collas, in order to protect his invention, formed the Société Collas et Barbedienne (Paris) with the art founder Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892), which began to produce and sell famous but smaller sculptures in plaster, wood, bronze or ivory.
The first object to be marketed was the Venus de Milo after the original in the Louvre Museum. Other sculptures such as the sculpture of George Washington, of which a bronze bust was made by the Barbedienne & Process Collas foundry, are currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
HEIGHT OF THE SCULPTURE without base 69CM + BASE = 84CM
WIDTH OF THE SCULPTURE without base 28 CM + BASE = 30,5 CM
LENGTH OF THE SCULPTURE without base 46 CM + BASE 51 CM
The Collas and Barbedienne company was highlighted at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, the objects of the Barbedienne foundry received a medal and sales soared. At the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris, the Barbedienne company again presented a large number of its compositions, including the large neo-Renaissance clock of 1878.
This clock, which was part of the Leblanc-Barbedienne estate, was donated by his heirs to the city of Paris, and is kept in the city hall.
Pierre Julien (20 June 1731 - 17 December 1804) was a French neo-classical sculptor who worked in the full range of rococo and neoclassical styles.
He had an early apprenticeship in Le Puy-en-Velay, near his native village of Saint-Paulien, and then at the École de Dessin in Lyon, before entering the Paris workshop of Guillaume Coustou le Jeune. In 1765, he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture with a bas-relief panel depicting a subject from Antiquity and entered the Royal School for Protected Pupils, which offered a special curriculum under the direction of the painter Louis-Michel van Loo. He was a boarder at the Académie de France in Rome from 1768 to 1773, where he was influenced by the wave of neoclassicism affecting his fellow students. As boarders were required to do, he sent back to France a slightly reduced marble copy of the so-called Cleopatra, the Sleeping Ariadne from the Vatican, which survives in Versailles.
Back in France and with his former master, he worked on the sculpture of the mausoleum of Louis, the Grand Dauphin, in the cathedral of Sens. After a failed attempt in 1776, with his Ganymede, he was accepted by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1778, with a Dying Gladiator. He was appointed one of the first members of the Institut de France in 1795, and knight of the Legion of Honour in 1804.
He was commissioned by the Count of Angiviller, director of the King's Buildings, on behalf of Louis XVI, to paint the figures for a series of life-size portraits of the great men of France: he produced a Jean de La Fontaine and a Nicolas Poussin, whom he chose to depict in a nightgown, similar to the draperies of a Roman toga. While fulfilling commissions in Paris, for the church of Sainte-Geneviève (now the Panthéon, Paris), or for the Pavillon de Flore in the Louvre, he sculpted in 1785 a virtuoso marble set representing the nymph Amalthée and Jupiter's nurse goat for the Queen's Dairy at the Château de Rambouillet; for his model, he adapted the pose of the famous Venus of the Capitoline. The bas-reliefs of the Dairy, considered his masterpieces, were sold at auction in 1819, but were recovered by the State in 2005, thanks to a gift from the son of the great dealer-collector Daniel Wildenstein.
19th century French school, after Pierre Julien (1731-1804)Amalthea and Jupiter's Goat
Bronze with a light brown patina and gilding, reduction made after the marble by Pierre-Julien 1785 executed for Marie-Antoinette at the Laiterie du parc du château de Rambouillet in the Louvre Museum.
Among his major works:
- Dying Gladiator, marble, 1779, Musée du Louvre.
- Ganymede pouring nectar to Jupiter changed into an eagle, [4] marble group, 1776-1778, Paris, Musée du Louvre.
- Jean de La Fontaine, marble, 1783-85. Musée du Louvre
- Nicolas Poussin, marble, 1789 - 1804. Musée du Louvre
- Sketch of a model in terracotta by Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1787 - 1788. Musée du Louvre
- Amalthea and Jupiter's goat, marble group, 1787 for the Rambouillet Dairy. The Queen's Dairy at Rambouillet
- The girl with the goat, terracotta statuette, 1786. Louvre Museum
- Sainte Geneviève restoring her mother's sight, terracotta bas-relief, 1776. Musée du Louvre
The works of the famous sculptor Pierre Julien have been referenced in several books and catalogues, including
The exhibition catalogue. Gilles Grandjean and Guilhem Scherf. "Pierre Julien 1731-1804". Le Puy-en-Velay, France: Musée Crozatier, 2004.
The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (Yale University Press, 1981), cat. no. 24, pp 184-87).
Michael Preston Worley, 2003. Pierre Julien: Sculptor to Queen Marie Antoinette. The first modern monograph.
Europe in the age of enlightenment and revolution, a catalogue from the libraries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online in PDF format), which contains information on Julien.
Excerpts from the Grove Dictionary of Art online
Pierre Julien in American Public Collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
STATUE BARE (BODY) NANNY GOAT (ANIMAL) AMALTHAEA SITTING WOMAN
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