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Art Subject: Bronze
Portrait - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Tiger surprising an antelope
Located in PARIS, FR
Antoine-Louis BARYE (1796-1875)
Tiger surprising an antelope
Bronze with nuanced dark greenish brown patina
Signed on the base " Barye "
Cast by Barye's own workshop (conducted in t...
Category
1870s French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mountain Goat, 20th Century Bronze Sculpture of Animal, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
William McVey (American, 1905-1995)
Mountain Goat
Bronze
Signed by foot
14 x 3.5 x 6 inches
William McVey (12 July 1905-31 May 1995) became Cleveland's most visible artist largely t...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bear standing
Located in PARIS, FR
Bear standing
by Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875)
Rare bronze sculpture with a nuanced dark brown patina
Probably cast by Brame (old edition)
France
circa 1880-1890
height 24 cm
A ...
Category
1880s French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Indian Ponies, realistic bronze sculpture, dark brown patina, horses, Nambe
By Allan Houser
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Indian Ponies, realistic bronze sculpture, dark brown patina, horses, Nambe Foundry
limited edition bronze
solid casting
Allan Houser (Haozous), Chiricahua Apache (1914-1994)
Selec...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Job
Located in Boston, MA
Edition of 12. Signed and inscribed on front right of base: "De LUE sc '86 © 1987 4/12 Tx". Cast at the Tallix Foundry in Beacon, NY.
"Job, as much as any work of De Lue, shows t...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$36,000
Menoca
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 Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$8,000
Jupiter 3
Located in Palm Desert, CA
My Jupiter Series is part of a new series of pieces started while quarantining in this pandemic time. They are hand cast solid bronze relief sculptures mounted on black granite bases...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
$880 Sale Price
20% Off
Ruin Cavallo Castrato Horse Bronze Sculpture Animal Contemporary In Stock
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
Ruin Cavallo Castrato Horse Bronze Sculpture Animal Contemporary In Stock
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1950 – Saint-Julien (Var), Fran...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Emile Boisseau "Ense et Aratro" Patinated Bronze for Tiffany & Co.
Located in Astoria, NY
Emile Andre Boisseau (French, 1842-1923) "Ense et Aratro" [By Sword or by Plow] Patinated Bronze Sculpture, retailed by Tiffany & Co., late 19th century, the standing warrior holding...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Three Assed Centaur
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by amateur archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann who discovered Troy and by past elaborate hoaxes like that of the Piltdown Man, Joshua Goode travels the world performi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Sidewalk Society Maquette, Limited Edition Sculpture
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Glenna Goodacre was commissioned to create the largescale bronze Sidewalk Society in Albuquerque Plaza, New Mexico. Her intention was for people to interact with her sculpture, and t...
Category
1990s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Eugene Alexandrovich Lanceray (Russian, 1848-1886) Cossack on Horse
Located in Dallas, TX
Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray (Russian, 1848-1886)
19th Century, Possibly post humus
Cossack on Horseback
Gilt bronze
signed in Cyrillic
Measures: Height 8 3/4 x width 8 3/4 inches....
Category
1890s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Spring Woman Lying Down Bronze Sculpture Female Figure
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
Spring Woman Lying Down Bronze Sculpture Female Figure
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1950 – Saint-Julien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Nude
By Ybah
Located in Pasadena, CA
After studying fine arts, a need for contact with solid material was needed. Ybah took a classic artistic path from an academic education from the Louvre reproductions, learning at t...
Category
20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$5,200 Sale Price
27% Off
2049 Rider Big Model Bronze
Located in Pasadena, CA
Bronze 1/3 black patina or gold leaf Korten steel base leaving
sculpture on wheels, water jet engraving QR coded cartridge.
Born in 1960 in a family of artists collecting the br...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Angel
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unique bronze sculpture of an angel
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roofvogel met Muis Prey Bird with Mouse Bronze Sculpture Ltd Edition In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Roofvogel met Muis Prey Bird with Mouse Bronze Sculpture Animal Bird Limited Edition
Evert den Hartog (born in Groot-Ammers, The Netherlands in 1949) followed his education to be a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Poison Ivy - contemporary sculpture bronze resin tall standing woman figure
Located in London, GB
Sara trained under Ken Hughes, a pupil of Henry Moore, at Bath Academy of Art. There she achieved a first class honours degree in Sculpture and was awarded the Henry Moore Foundation...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
"Bronze Statue - Ife, Nigeria, " Bronze Sculpture created circa 1920s
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bronze Statue - Ife, Nigeria" is a bronze sculpture created in circa 1920. This figure has short legs and a short torso, but a large head. They held out their hands with two objects...
Category
1920s Tribal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Italian Grand Tour Granite "Medici" Lion 19th Century
Located in Rochester, NY
19th century grand tour carving of the "Medici" lion. Carved green porphyry granite. This is an unusually large size. Pieces carved porphyry granite are uncommon. It's hardness makes...
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Granite
Cloned Bulldog with pet bottle
Located in Malmo, SE
Signed/Numbered 3/8 ex.
Silver plated bronze.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Free shipment worldwide.
William Sweetlove, born in Ostend, Belgium, in 1949, unites dadaism with surrealism and pop art in humoristic sculptures that at first sight may seem “kitschy”. However, closer familiarity with his works reveals their role as a creative antidote to the overproduction and overconsumption of our society. With his cloned animals William Sweetlove calls for greater ecological awareness and urges us to reflect on the consequences of the climate change challengeing humanity. His cloned dogs wear boots since the sea level rises and the penguins carry water bottles since we are runnig out of drinking water. William Sweetlove has had exhibitions at art fairs, galleries and museums all over the world. His works are found in several private art collections. He has also participated in different art manifestations worldwide together with the Italian Cracking Art Group. The community of Borås acquired the sculpture “Cloned Frogs on Gala Dress...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver, Bronze
JAMES BROWN Moroccan VI - 1993 Bronze abstract Sculpture of Head - small edition
By James Brown
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
From the signed and numbered edition of 6.
James Brown's artwork can be found on the collections of:
Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris
Musee Cantini, Marse...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Squirrel I
Located in Somerset West, WC
Squirrel I is a limited edition bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of 19th Century Busts by Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Signed: A. Carrier-Belluese
Two large bronze matching busts of an unknown male and female
22 x 10 x 11" male
23 x 10 x 9" female
Both show signs of wear with their age but are in fa...
Category
19th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$6,000 Sale Price
50% Off
"Large Head with Horns - Nigerian, Ekoi People, " Carved Wood created circa 1950
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This carving is of a large head with three horns. This piece is made of wood and skin by the Ekoi people of Nigeria. Ekoi people, also known as Ejagham, are an ethnic group in the ex...
Category
1950s Folk Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Animal Skin, Wood
'Dinonaut'
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by amateur archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann who discovered Troy and by past elaborate hoaxes like that of the Piltdown Man, Joshua travels the world performing sta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic
Portrait - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Portrait - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
The Cradle
Located in PARIS, FR
Le Berceau (The Cradle)
by Baltasar LOBO (1910-1993)
A bronze group with a brownish green patina
Signed at the lower backside " Lobo "
Cast by " Susse Fondeur Paris " (with the foun...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Reclining Boy
Located in Boston, MA
Initialed and dated: "DVT 61". From the estate of the artist. In fine condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dawn
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 17
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...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$3,500
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 Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
ANTIQUE ITALIAN ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS WITH CHIMERAS
Located in Milan, IT
ARCHITECTURAL RELIEFS WITH CHIMERAS
Central Italy, 16th Century
green marble
26 x 25 cm
10 1/4 x 9 3/4 in
Category
16th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"Sea Wind, " Bronze Portrait Sculpture signed by Judye Frankowiak
By Judye Frankowiak
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sea Wind" is an original bronze sculpture by Judye Frankowiak. The artist signed the piece. It depicts a woman with wind-swept hair. It is number 8 from an edition of 10.
8 1/2" x 6" x 7" art
B.A. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Further study: Newark State College, Elizabeth N.J.: Education
Summit Art Center, Summit, N.J.: Sculpture
1970-1978: Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI. Worked under contract in Exhibits and Graphics Dept. to create life-size human figures for exhibits and dioramas
1970 to Present: Provided exhibit and diorama sculpture...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Head of Dame Edith Sitwell
Located in London, GB
Maurice Lambert
Head of Dame Edith Sitwell
1901-1964
Patinated bronze on marble base
Dimensions: 7 x 16 inches (18 x 41 cm)
Provenance
Private collection
Originally commissioned by Edith's brother Osbert Sitwell circa 1926/27. Our version is of the same period and must have been commissioned at the same time. A version of this piece made in 1984 in aluminium is held in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 5801).
Maurice Lambert
Maurice Lambert, born in Paris, was son of the Russian-born Australian painter George Washington Lambert...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Vos Fox Bronze Sculpture Girl with Fox Figure People Animal
By Erwin Meijer
Located in Utrecht, NL
Vos Fox Bronze Sculpture Girl with Fox Figure People Animal
The statues of Erwin Meijer are subtle with a recognizable, personal handwriting.
T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lucifer Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Classic Mythology Male Figure Wings Angel
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Lucifer Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Classic Mythology Male Figure Wings Angel
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
La Rieuse napolitaine
Located in PARIS, FR
La Rieuse napolitaine
(The Laughing Neapolitan Woman)
by Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX (1827-1875)
Bust in terra cotta, in "Propriété Carpeaux"
Signed on the side " JBte Carpeaux "
Marked...
Category
1870s French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Mini Nail #2
By David Tanych
Located in Napa, CA
David Tanych has been building objects since his father gave him a saw, hammer, nails and a block of wood at the age of 10.
A veteran home and furniture builder, David turned his in...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$1,500
Small Bronze Sculpture Cast Head After Rodin "Petite tete au nez retrousse"
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Auguste Rodin
Posthumous cast
"Petite tete au nez retroussé"
Featuring a bust of a woman.
Limited edition bronze is mounted on a marble base and is signed on the lower right. Great detail.
Dimensions: approx. 7-1/4" tall x 5" across x 5" deep with base
Foundry mark on the reverse, #13 of 299 produced.
François Auguste René Rodin (1840 – 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. He is known for such sculptures as The Thinker, Monument to Balzac, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, and The Gates of Hell. He modeled the human body with naturalism, and his sculptures celebrate individual character and physicality. Although Rodin was sensitive to the controversy surrounding his work, he refused to change his style, and his continued output brought increasing favor from the government and the artistic community.
Rodin became the preeminent French sculptor of his time. By 1900, he was a world-renowned artist. Wealthy private clients sought Rodin's work after his World's Fair exhibit, and he kept company with a variety of high-profile intellectuals and artists. His student, Camille Claudel, became his associate, lover, and creative rival. Rodin's other students included Antoine Bourdelle, Constantin Brancusi, and Charles Despiau.
Rodin entered the studio of Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, a successful mass producer of objets d'art. Rodin worked as Carrier-Belleuse' chief assistant until 1870, designing roof decorations and staircase and doorway embellishments. With the arrival of the Franco-Prussian War, Rodin was called to serve in the French National Guard, but his service was brief due to his near-sightedness. Rodin took classes with animal sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye. The teacher's attention to detail and his finely rendered musculature of animals in motion significantly influenced Rodin. Rodin won the 1880 commission to create a portal for a planned museum of decorative arts. Rodin dedicated much of the next four decades to his elaborate Gates of Hell, an unfinished portal for a museum that was never built. Many of the portal's figures became sculptures in themselves, including Rodin's most famous, The Thinker and The Kiss. With the museum commission came a free studio, granting Rodin a new level of artistic freedom.
By 1900, Rodin's artistic reputation was established. Gaining exposure from a pavilion of his artwork set up near the 1900 World's Fair (Exposition Universelle) in Paris, he received requests to make busts of prominent people internationally, As Rodin's fame grew, he attracted many followers, including the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and authors Octave Mirbeau, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Oscar Wilde.
Rodin and Beuret's modest country estate in Meudon, purchased in 1897, was a host to such guests as King Edward, dancer Isadora Duncan, and harpsichordist Wanda Landowska. He left Beuret in Meudon and began an affair with the American-born Duchesse de Choiseul. From 1910, he mentored the Russian sculptor, Moissey Kogan...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri 1880
Located in Portland, OR
A good antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze and marble bust of Dante Alighieri, circa 1880.
The bronze is most likely Florentine and mod...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Torso XXXXL , Bronze/wood H 20 cm; L 30cm; W 20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ivars Miķelsons (1962)
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Torso XXL , Bronze/wood H 15 cm; L 30cm; W 20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ivars Miķelsons (1962)
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Harriet Frishmuth 1923 Bronze Of The Vine
Located in Dallas, TX
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (American, 1880-1980)
The Vine, 1921
Bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 11.5 inches (29.2 cm) high on a 3/4 inches (1.9 cm) high marble base
Inscrib...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Eroina Sdraiata Bronze Sculpture Lying Down Wings Figurative Angel
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
Eroina Sdraiata Bronze Sculpture Lying Down Wings Figurative Angel
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1950 – Saint-Julien (Var), France 20...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Frederick Ashton
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 Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Thyl Ulenspiegel et Nele – Reduction of the Monument to Charles De Coster
Located in Gent, VOV
Charles Samuel – Thyl Ulenspiegel and Nele (after the Monument to Charles De Coster, 1894) Bronze, marble base, 66 x 61 x 27 cm Cast by Petermann, Brussels A moment of intimacy and d...
Category
20th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
KONGŌRIKISHI
Located in Milano, IT
This magnificent pair of boxwood sculptures, 22 cm high, depicts the Kongōrikishi, also known as Niō, the protective guardians of Japanese Buddhist temples. These towering figures, a...
Category
18th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Bronze Mask Sculpture, 2024 - 'Mascara'
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Chidy Wayne (b. 1981, Spain) is an artist based in Barcelona. Over the years, he has established himself as a recognized figure in the art world, developing a personal artistic langu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Earth, midsize
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sculpture of a woman representing the element of earth.
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ivars Miķelsons (1962) , Bronze H 138 cm; W28 cm; L28 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ivars Miķelsons (1962)
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Venus Figure in Iron Cage. Lost-Wax Bronze and Forged Iron Sculpture
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Caged Woman 1 (Ø 32 cm) by Aldonza is the inaugural work in the “Caged Women” series, reimagining Paleolithic Venus figures within a modern context of constraint and hope. This sculp...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Mounted Jockeys Taking a Jump
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Bronze (After) Henri (Comte) Geoffroy De Ruille, Mounted Jockeys (French 1842-1922)
"Mounted Jockeys Taking a Jump"
40"long x 26" high x 20 ½" wide
20th Century
Medium: Patinaed B...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ivars Miķelsons (1962) , Bronze/wood H 38 cm; L 72cm; W 25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ivars Miķelsons (1962)
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vasili Grachev Troika Passage
Located in Dallas, TX
Vasili Grachev, 1831-1905. A patinated chocolate brown bronze grouping of horses pulling a troika with figures. A Classic Russian bronze grouping of three horses tearing through the ...
Category
1870s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Life Size Sculpture of Male Head in Patina Bronze "Giorgi"
Located in New York, NY
Bronze life-size male head with a dark brown patina.
Rushton sculpts all of his busts using live models over the course of multiple sittings. While realistic and classical in charac...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
English Bulldog
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture by artists Bill and Renee Shisler. Edition 7/25.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A late 17th Italian carved limewood figure of Mermaid, circle of Filippo Parodi
Located in PARIS, FR
A late 17th c. Italian carved figure of Mermaid,
Circle of Filippo Parodi (Genoa, 1630 – July 22, 1702)
Dimensions: h. 29.13 in, w. 30.31 in, p. 18.9 in (at the base)
Magnificent Italian Baroque sculpture depicting a mermaid seated on the rock.
All the virtuosity of the sculptor unfolds in this carved group. The fantastic creature is featured seated, the upper part of the body darting forward, the head looking upwards. Sophisticated hairstyle with rows of pearls intertwined in her hair, her loose locks fly in the wind and bring movement to the whole sculpture.
The wide-open eyes with hollowed-out pupils make it possible to follow the mermaid's gaze, towards the sky. The half-open mouth further magnifies this bewitching and seductive attitude.
Its long double tail ending in fins wraps on either side of a rocky mound strewn with objects evoking the underwater world: seashells and shells, branches of coral.
The ornamental richness combined with the great care taken in its execution make it a work in which the splendor of Italian Baroque art unfolds in such characteristic scenic movement.
The composition betrays a strong influence from Filippo Parodi, the leader of Genoese Baroque sculpture, and points to an artist from his circle.
Our sculpture was probably part of a decorative monumental palace.
The iconographic theme evoking the marine world finds its application in the numerous fountains and artificial grottos, designed in Italian palaces at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Giacomo Filippo Parodi (Genoa 1630 – July 22, 1702) was an Italian Baroque sculptor of the Genoese school, who introduced Bernini's aesthetic to Genoa.
In his youth fathers a first apprenticeship with a carpenter, he went to Rome where he became a pupil of Bernini.
He had the opportunity to admire in person the works and style of the French sculptor Pierre Puget...
Category
Late 17th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
$20,940 Sale Price
20% 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 Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze