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"Dreams of Ecstasy", Martin Eichinger, Figurative, Bronze, Romance, 70x12x17 in.
Located in Dallas, TX
Immerse yourself in a world where emotions run high and desires are laid bare with our stunning Dreams of Ecstasy sculpture. Crafted with exquisite detail, this towering masterpiece ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bust of a Lady, Madame Comtesse Du Barry, Terracotta Bust, French Antique School
Located in Greven, DE
A powerful presentation piece, this stunning bust of Jean Bécu - Comtesse du Barry is both beautiful and tragic. Executed in terracotta that has been...
Category
19th Century Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
"You Are a Remarkable Woman, Kara Walker" wall sculpture portrait
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
Cast glass with graphite and resin-painted aluminum.
Steve Linn describes himself as a documentary sculptor, conducting meticulous research on each of his selected subjects and choo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Female Torso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Female Torso” (2023) by Zura is a life-size sculpture measuring 39 × 16 × 12 inches (99.1 × 40.6 × 30.5 cm), crafted in plaster with an option for bronze casting. This unique work e...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Vintage Chinese Jade Carving with Mountains Blooming Trees
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Large Vintage Chinese Jade Jadeite Carving with Mountains
Jade sculpture dimension's 28w x15.5h x 9.5d presented on wooden base 30.5w x 24h x 11d.
Vintage after 1960's jadeite hand ...
Category
1960s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Looking for You
By Denny Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Looking For You by Denny Haskew
Figurative Bronze/Paraffin Wax
11x14x14" Ed/15 2015
Female and Male Nudes 5 figures total
"Love has no age, no limit; and no death." — John Galswo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Oops.. by Helle Crawford, Contemporary frog bronze animal sculpture
Located in DE
Even though Helle Rask Crawford often refers to classic myths in her sculptures, sh is not a classical sculptor in the neoclassical sense. Rather, Helle Crawford could be defined as ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Gold, Bronze
“Expecting”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original terracotta sculpture by the American sculptor William Huppert. Titled “Expecting”. Circa 1960. Post Modern. Overall height 18 inches including base. Base is 6 wide by 5.25 ...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
"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 Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
La Posada
Located in PARIS, FR
La Posada
by François-Rupert CARABIN (1862-1932)
A bronze group with a silvered patina
Signed on the base "R. Carabin"
Old cast
Numbered "5"
France
circa 1901
height 24 cm
length ...
Category
Early 1900s French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Saint John the Evangelist
Located in Wien, Wien
Saint John the Evangelist
Prague workshop from the circle of Master Theoderich
(mentioned from 1359 to 1368)
Around 1380/90
Carved & polychrome painted limewood
Height 88 cm
St. Jo...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Gothic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Rams Head Sculpture in Bronze by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
Charles Rumsey was an avid sportsman, horseman and a child prodigy in sculpting sent to Paris to study as a boy. His life of hunting fishing and ridin...
Category
1910s American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sculpture - Male Face
By Max Blondat
Located in PARIS, FR
Max Blondat (1872 - 1925)
Mael Figure
1915
Terracotta
30 x 21 x 14 cm
Signed and dated on the neck on the left: Max Blondat 1915
Category
1910s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Bandwala, Figurative, Bronze, by Modern Artist Krishen Khanna "In Stock"
By Kishen Khanna
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Krishen Khanna - Bandwala
Bronze
H 12 x W x 10 x D 6.5 inches
( Delivered )
Not Welcome, man chased by dog, figurative, oil in black, white, brown by Padma Bhushan Modern Indian Art...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Bergmann
Located in New York, NY
FRANZ BERGMAN
Austrian, (1861-1936)
A Fine Quality Austrian cold-painted Bronze Table Lamp and Sculpture Depicting an Arab merchant, stamped...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Et in Arcadia Bronze Sculpture Nude Male Figure Mythology Contemporary Classic
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Et in Arcadia Bronze Sculpture Nude Male Figure Mythology Contemporary Classic
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a pe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Two sculptures. The In Light of Her Series. Porcelain, with hand-painted details
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The three series that make up her thesis show all center around the woman as an art historical trope who becomes a contemporary archetype of tenderness and tenacity with her own narrative. The tradition of the woman as muse or object is questioned and turned upside down as she gives her women the position of subject, i.e., the position of power. The jars, which uphold pairs of women, are the ultimate overturn of male dominance as she removes and replaces all male characters from famous artworks with women...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Sisters
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sisters was inspired by a gouache painting from 1921 entitled 'Les baisers pervers ou la brune et la blonde' and is a wonderful example of an invention of Erté's from the early 1920s...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte
Located in New York, NY
RENZO COLOMBO
Italian, (1856-1885)
Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte
Patinated bronze; Signed R. Colombo 1885 on Right Side
22 x 15 inches
Notes:
The...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"The Muses Suit" Bronze Collection of Dance, Music, Poetry, and Theater, 42/65
Located in Dallas, TX
Step into the world of artistic elegance with our exclusive offer on the Muses suite by master sculptor Frederick Hart. Each bronze head, representing Dance, Music, Poetry, and Theat...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Expressionist Wall Sculpture by Chris Riccardo
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
renown sculptor Chris Riccardo
Terracotta with under glazes
EDUCATION:
1990 - BFA- College of Fine Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
PRESENT
STUDIO 740- ARTIST/ STUDIO MANAGER, Helena, MT
ASSISTANT CURATOR OF EDUCATION- HOLTER MUSEUM OF ART, Helena, MT
1998-2014
SCULPTURE DEPART. CHAIR/ FOUNDRY DIRECTOR - Armory Art Center,WPB, FL
2012
SUMMER RESIDENT ARTIST @ THE ARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION, Helena, MT
2010
ELECTED MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY
DESIGNED & FABRICATED ANNUAL AWARD - The Arthur R. Marshall Foundation, WPB, FL
DESIGNED & FABRICATED SENIOR GIFT SCULPTURE - Northwood University, WPB, FL
2008
DESIGNED & FABRICATED ANNUAL AWARD - Judge Knott Award, Historical Society of Palm Beach County
DESIGNED & FABRICATED ANNUAL AWARD - Providencia Award- Palm Beach County Convention Bureau, WPB, FL
FINALIST - My Wendy, My Way, Wendy’s International, Dublin, OH
2003
DESIGNED & FABRICATED CEE CEE LYLES MEMORIAL- Veteran’s Park, Ft. Pierce, FL
1998 - 1996
RDK STUDIOS - Owner/Operator, FIne Art Bronze Foundry, Riviera Beach, FL
EXHIBITIONS:
2015
CHRIS RICCARDO & FRIENDS, The Art Spirit Gallery of Fine Art, Coure d’Alene, ID
16TH ANNUAL SMALLL ARTWORKS INVITATIONAL, The Art Spirit Gallery of Fine Art, Coure d’Alene, ID
2014
ON & OFF THE WALL: SOFLO CERAMICS, The Art Gallery @ Eissey Campus Gallery
ART PALM BEACH, JF Gallery, WPB, FL
IN LIQUID 15, Philadelphia, PA
2013
NCECA 2013: Resident Artist Exhibtion, NCECA 18 Hands Gallery, Houston TX
ART PALM BEACH, JF Gallery, WPB, FL
THE INVISIBLE HOURDE: Unit 1 Gallery, WPB, FL
2012
ARCHIE BRAY @ the Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, Spokane, WA
RESIDENT ARTIST EXHIBITION: Bray Warehouse Galley, The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
MUSES & SIRENS: CHRIS RICCARDO & JACQUES De BEAUFORT, The Art GAllery @ Eissey Campus, PBG, FL
PALM BEACH ART & ANTIQUES, JF Gallery, WPB, FL
SMALL FAVORS VII- The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
BEYOND THE BRICKYARD ( 4th Annual Juried Exhibition ) Juried by Richard Shaw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Le cantique des pilotis by M. de Soos - Figurative bronze sculpture, dark tones
Located in Paris, FR
Le cantique des pilotis is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Marine de Soos, dimensions are 65.5 × 29 × 26 cm (25.8 × 11.4 × 10.3 in).
The sculpture is signed and num...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Embrace Marble Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Embrace Mother with child.
Soft pink-white marble, black onyx pedestal, artist signed.
It will be shipped in two separate boxes.
Robert Russin, born in 1914, in New York City died in...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
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 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 Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Maternité Allongée cm 120 (patine noire bleutée)
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 sc...
Category
1960s Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Auguste Moreau Bronze Sculpture of Maiden Seated beside a Peacock .
Located in New York, NY
A Fine French Patinated Bronze Figure of Young Maiden sitting beside a Peacock surmounted atop a rouge marble plinth by Auguste Moreau.
Perfect size for a desk or dresser, or mantle ornament...
Category
19th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Damas y Caballeros: Manolo Valdes
Located in Miami, FL
Manolo Valdes
Damas y Caballeros: Manolo Valdes, 2024
This pieces consists in a resin sculpture and a book case containing: one book of etchings by the artist and a study book of his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Silvered Figural Bacchante Torcheres
Located in New York, NY
ALBERT ERNEST CARRIER BELLEUSE
French, (1824-1887)
Silvered Figural Bacchante Torcheres on Pedestal
Silvered and Gilt bronze; one figure inscribed ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of monkey candelabras
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of monkey candelabras
by Christophe FRATIN (1801-1864)
Bronze with nuanced dark brown patina
signed "Fratin" on the foot
old period cas...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mixed Media Sculpture: 'Woolly TRex Skull'
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
Resin, Plaster, Paint, Mixed Media
You too my son by Marine de Soos - Bronze nude sculpture, mother, child, family
Located in Paris, FR
You too my son is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Marine de Soos, dimensions are 32 × 21 × 19 cm (12.6 × 8.3 × 7.5 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary 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 Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
La cruche cassée
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Nice, 19th-century gilt bronze cast by Emile Francois Carlier
Exhibited:
Salon, Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1865 (another cast)
Salon, Société des Artistes Français, Pari...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Standing Chief (Shield) by Yoram Wolberger, 2016
Located in Orange, CA
Standing Chief (Shield) by Yoram Wolberger, 2016
Additional information:
Medium: Reinforced cast fiberglass composite and pigmented resin
Dimensions: 84 × 65 × 29 in (213.4 × 165.1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Pigment, Resin
Earth
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 ne...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bust of an Oriental woman
Located in PARIS, FR
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 ...
Category
1880s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jewel box "Soleil"
Located in PARIS, FR
Ceramic and gold leaf
7 x 23.5 x 22 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Boris Lovet-Lorski Limestone Art Deco Head, circa 1930
Located in New York, NY
White stone head in the art deco style.
Born in Lithuania at the end of the nineteenth century, Boris Lovet-Lorski studied art at the Imperial Academy of Art in St. Petersburg before working briefly as an architect. He immigrated to New York in 1920 and became an American citizen five years later. His sculptures epitomize the ideals of the Art Deco decades: comprised of sleek lines and smooth surfaces, the streamlined compositions reflect the new technological forms of the machine age. Despite their modernist treatment, Lovet-Lorski’s elegant, stylized figures reference both ancient and classical sources and are characterized by a universal and serene sensibility. Concentrating on figural busts, familial groups, and standing female nudes as his subject matter, the artist rendered them in a variety of media. The materials range from the traditional bronze and marble to exotic woods and unusual stones; each is carefully selected so that its surface texture and color contribute to the emotive aura of the work.
Carved out of a block of limestone, Untitled (Head) depicts a female visage nearly androgynous in its idealization. The delicate features of her face, the long, straight nose, thin pursed lips and high cheekbones, are made even more diminutive by the massive bulk of the stone that serves as their backdrop. The prominent widow’s peak of her hairline and the strong arch of her brow, two of Lovet-Lorski’s most distinctive characteristics, are elongated to accentuate the linear rhythms of the composition. The layers of her hair are delineated by stepped striations reminiscent of archaic precedents, which meld into structural columns and connect the form architecturally to the stone’s mass.
Unlike the majority of Lovet-Lorski’s sculptures, in which the heads of the figures are tilted to the side or downward to convey a pensive mood, the woman in Untitled (Head) looks straight ahead. Her frontal positioning gives the composition a nearly perfect symmetry, in turn endowing the work with a still, eternal sensibility. The notched surface of the surrounding limestone stands in sharp contrast to the smoothness of her skin. In the twenties, the artist tended to finish his sculptures to a highly polished degree of refinement, but in the thirties he began to experiment with contrasts of texture and the aesthetic of the fragment. In this respect, the work is vaguely evocative of Egyptian funerary sculptures, in which the figures were carved with an eye for three-dimensionality but were left intact in a larger piece of stone to give them physical durability and permanence. Embodying classical ideals of stoicism and universal beauty, the sculpture ultimately exudes a surface allure that is difficult to resist.
A similar example of this approach can be seen in the 1937 sculpture Diana, which resides in the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Carved from a piece of black Belgian marble, the work is a stylized bust of the Greek goddess Diana...
Category
1930s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Pause 1/3 - small, surrealist, canoe, male, figurative, wood, bronze, sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The legendary canoeist and Canadian filmmaker Bill Mason once said, “First God made the canoe then he created a country to go with it.”
Sculptor Roch Smith has embraced the iconic i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chien à la sauterelle, Sandoz, Dog, Sculpture, Bronze, Animal, 1910's
Located in Geneva, CH
Chien à la sauterelle, Sandoz, Dog, Sculpture, Bronze, Animal, 1910's
Chien à la sauterelle
Susse Fondeur
circa 1918-1930
Bronze with brown patina and shade of green
13 x 13 x 9 cm
Signed and seal of the foundry on the base : Sandoz, Susse Fondeur
Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté de Edouard Marcel Sandoz, sculpteur figuriste et animalier 1881-1971, by Félix Marcilhac, Les Editions de l'amateur, 1993...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cigale
Located in PARIS, FR
Cigale (Cicada)
by Albert-Ernest CARRIER-BELLEUSE (1824-1887)
Bronze sculpture with nuanced dark brown patina
signed "A. Carrier-Belleuse"
old edition cast
France
circa 1870
heigh...
Category
1870s French School Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Carthage
Located in PARIS, FR
"Carthage"
also known as "Salammbô at Mathô, I Love You! I Love You"
by Théodore RIVIERE (1857-1912)
A bronze group with a nuanced greenish brown patina
Signed on the base " Théodor...
Category
Late 19th Century Symbolist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
GROTESQUE MASK
Located in Milan, IT
GROTESQUE MASK
Italy, 15h Century
stone
30 x 31 x 20 cm
11 3/4 x 12 1/4 x 7 3/4 in
Category
15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Madame du Barry white marble bust by French sculptor Augustin Pajou (1730-1810)
Located in Bath, Somerset
A 19th century white marble bust of Marie-Jeanne Bécu, the Comtesse du Barry after the 18th century original by the French sculptor Augustin Pajou. ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Vrouw met Uil Owl Bronze Sculpture Girl with Owl on Head Wisdom In Stock
By Erwin Meijer
Located in Utrecht, NL
Uil Owl Bronze Sculpture Girl with Owl on Head Wisdom Contemporary In Stock
The statues of Erwin Meijer are subtle with a recognizable, personal handwriting.
They breathe the atmosphere of a narrative poem, where the reader not only encounters the artist, but also himself.
Though the statues are realistic, there is still enough room for interpretation. Do the artist and the viewer see the same story? It doesn’t really matter, because the beauty in his work has a autonome quality. How can we interprete the work in the conscious and unconscious brain?
The first will be hit by the clear styled forms and the technical know-how. The second by his favourite theme, nature, the loving images of men and animals, often together in harmony.
Very common in his work is the symbolic worth within the story. The viewer experiences an emotion, seeing a human or human presence, funny or vulnerable. You sympathize with the myth and feel the power of the methaphorical meaning. This is confirms we are dealing with a real artist.
Erwin Meijer managed very well to give his sculptures a classic universality, timeless, surpassing the boundaries of reality. With a signature beyond countries and cultures. . East and west meet each other in many sculptures, like Europe and the bull...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique, Marble Sculpture of Juno
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunningly hand carved, large, circa 1825, solid Carrara marble statue of the crowned, Roman goddess, Juno- known in ancient times as the ruler of marriage, home, and family, a champ...
Category
1820s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"00:03" Resin Sculpture 73" x 71" x 27.5" inch Edition 2/8 by Huang Yulong
By Huang Yulong
Located in Culver City, CA
"00:03" Resin Sculpture 73" x 71" x 27.5" inch Edition 2/8 by Huang Yulong
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Huang Yulong was born in 1983 in Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Bache...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
Fausto Biggi Romeo and Juliet Italian Marble Sculpture .
Located in New York, NY
Capturing a climactic moment from Shakespeare’s famed tragedy, this exquisite marble sculpture was created by acclaimed Italian sculptor Fausto Biggi in t...
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"Nkondi Bakongo Fetish - Zaire, " Wood, Cloth, Nails, & Twine created in c. 1930
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nkondi Bakongo Fetish - Zaire" is a sculpture created out of wood, cloth, nails, and twine in circa 1930. This statue is large and formidable. The figure's limbs are wrapped up in a...
Category
1930s Tribal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Other Medium
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
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