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Period: Early 1900s
Medium: Metal
Louis Ernest Barrias Nature Revealing Herself
Located in Dallas, TX
Louis Ernest Barrias (French 1841-1905)
Nature Revealing Herself
La Nature se dévoilant devant la Science
Gilt, and silver patinated bronze with blue glass scarab
Signed on base “E...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tall Franz Bergman Erotic Bronze
Located in Dallas, TX
Franz Bergman Erotic Patinated Bronze Of A Woman Putting On Her Robe. Wearing a shear (almost) see through lingerie under garment; the lady is going through the motions to put on her...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Franz Bergman Bronze Mother And Children
Located in Dallas, TX
Franz Bergman Partial Gilt and Cold-Painted Bronze Figural Groups comprising of a Mother and her children. The nude boy and girl are draped in a cold painted garland all bare foot. A...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antoine Bofill Bronze of a Sea Man with Oars, French, circa 1900
Located in Dallas, TX
This larger than life gold gilded bronze of a sea man with oars will decorate any area and be a great conversation piece. The composition and casting detail are amazing. This is the ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Carl Kauba Bronze Figure of "Justitia" Seated Woman with Sword
By Carl Kauba
Located in Dallas, TX
Wonderful and rare original Carl Kauba (1865-1922) gilt bronze of a Lady with sword and law book titled "Justitia"
Signed: C Kauba and Geschutzt 4889.
Height: 10.7 Inches with mar...
Category
Early 1900s Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Leo Laporte Blairsy Art Nouveau Silver Overlay Bronze, 1903
Located in Dallas, TX
L'alsacienne Or Bretonne aux Rameau silver overlay patina by Leo Laporte Blairsy (French, 1867-1923). Depicting a woman in robe holding a garnet of flowers with a L'alsacienne or Bre...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Maurice Bouval Gilt and Silvered Bronze Art Nouveau Figure
Located in Dallas, TX
Maurice Bouval
French Art Nouveau Gilt and Silvered Bronze Figural Vide Poche
Cast from a model by Maurice Bouval, cast by Jollet & Cie., Paris, circa 1900
Modeled as a maiden in a ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jean Leon Gerome Plaudite Cives Bronze sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 - 1904) FRENCH
BELLUAIRE OR PLAUDITE CIVES.
This sculpture shows the scene of a Roman coliseum where a gladiator just finished his battle with a large lion. ...
Category
Early 1900s Metal 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 Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antoine Bofill Art Nouveau Nude Bronze Sculpture, circa 1900
Located in Dallas, TX
This is one of Antoine Bofill's best models, being a signature Art Nouveau nature form with a beautiful nude nymph gazing upon a bumble bee insect. The patina on this statue figure i...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dancer with a tambourine
Located in PARIS, FR
"Dancer with a tambourine"
by Agathon LÉONARD (1841–1923)
Rare sculpture made in gilded bronze
Signed on the dress "A. Léonard Sclp"
Cast by Susse Frères (with founder stamp)
Stamp...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dancer with Torches
Located in PARIS, FR
Dancer with Torches
by Agathon LÉONARD (1841–1923)
A rare sculpture made in bronze with a nuanced light brown patina
Signed on the backside "A. Léonard Sclp"
Cast by Susse Frères (w...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bust of a French Nobleman
Located in Milford, NH
A fine patinated bronze bust of a French nobleman by French sculptor Ernest Rancoulet (1870-1915). Rancoulet was born in Bordeaux, France and was best known for his Neoclassical bron...
Category
Early 1900s Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lamp "Woman-Flower"
Located in PARIS, FR
"Woman-Flower" Lamp
by MARS-VALLETT (1869-1957)
Art Nouveau sculpture forming a table lamp, made in gilded bronze
with two light arms
Signed on the base "Mars-Vallett"
Old edition ast
France
circa 1900
height (without light bulbs) 35 cm
width 25 cm
Biography:
Mars-Vallett, pseudonym of François Marius Vallet (1869-1957), was a French caricaturist and sculptor. Son of a marble worker from Chambéry, Mars-Vallett was a student at the Paris School of Fine Arts. Working as a caricaturist during his youth, he worked for numerous Parisian publications such as the newspaper “Soleil du Dimanche”.
Mars-Vallett won several awards at the Salon of French Artists and the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts. He was also the curator of the Savoy museum in 1904 and the Charmettes museum (Jean-Jacques Rousseau's house) in 1907. He was one of the founding members of the Society of Friends of Old Chambéry in 1933.
During his life in Paris, Mars-Vallett received visits to his studio, among others, from Auguste Rodin and Albert Bartholomé. He was very close with the painter François Cachoud...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ruth. 1902. Сast iron, h 61 cm; w 27 cm molder Kuznetsov, factory KASLI
Located in Riga, LV
Ruth. 1902. Сast iron, h 61 cm; w 27 cm molder Kuznetsov, factory KASLI
Author - Friedrich GOLDSCHEIDER (1845-1897)
Category
Early 1900s Realist Metal Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Motherhood
Located in PARIS, FR
"Motherhood"
by Jules DALOU (1838-1902)
Bronze with a dark brown patina
A very fine cast by HEBRARD
The casts by Hébrard are always the finest ones regarding Dalou's works. Perfect in quality of cast and patina.
France
model dated 1874
cast around 1905
Height 45 cm
A similar model reproduced in "Jules Dalou, le sculpteur de la République", Exhibition held at the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 2013, page 356, n°286.
Biography :
Aimé-Jules Dalou, said Jules Dalou(1838-1902) was a French sculptor, born from Protestants glovers craftsmen who raised in secularism and love of the Republic. Jules Dalou was very young talented for modeling and drawing, which earned him the attention of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, who made him entered in 1852 in the Little School, the future National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. In 1854, he was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Paris, where he studied painting in the workshop of Abel de Pujol and sculpture in the workshop of Francisque Duret...
Category
Early 1900s French School Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Dancer with the scarf" lamp
Located in PARIS, FR
Agathon LÉONARD (1841–1923)
Lamp "Danseuse à L'Écharpe"
"Dancer with the scarf" lamp
A very rare sculpture forming a table lamp, made in gilded bronze
The scarf hides the light bulb
Signed on the side of the dress "A. Léonard Sclp"
Cast by Susse Frères (with founder stamp)
France
circa 1905
height 60 cm
A similar model is reproduced in "Les bronzes du XIXe siècle", P. Kjellberg, Les éditions de l'amateur, 2005, page 460.
Biography:
Léonard Agathon Van Weydeveldt, said Agathon Léonard (1841-1923) was a sculptor of Belgian origin naturalized French. After studying art at the Lille Academy of Fine Arts and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Agathon Léonard settled in Paris for a long time, where after having exhibited at the Salon of 1868, he joined the Society of French artists in 1887, then to the National Society of Fine Arts in 1897. Very involved in the artistic movement of the Art Nouveau style, he exhibited many pieces (medallions, bronze statuettes and ceramics) finely worked.
Following an order from the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, dating from 1898, Agathon Léonard exhibited at the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris his famous table centerpiece "Game of the scarf" in porcelain biscuit, composed of fifteen statuettes representing dancers with pleated dresses reminiscent of Loïe Fuller's choreographies or Neo-Greek dancers...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fox Hound After the Hunt, Bronze Sculpture by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
CHARLES CARY RUMSEY, born in Buffalo, NY in 1879. His interest in sculpture appeared and was encouraged at an early age. The most significant encouragement came when the boy was taken by his parents to Paris in 1893.
After graduating from Harvard in 1902, Rumsey returned to Paris where he took a studio in the Latin Quarter and enrolled and the Julian and Colarossi Academies. One professor, Emmanuel Fremiet, a specialist in equestrian statuary, devoted special emphasis to the study of the horse, and his training was to have a decisive influence on the young Rumsey. Apart from sculpture, horses were the great passion of his life. He was an excellent horseman and an 8 goal polo player with Meadowbrook Polo Club Long Island NY.
Rumsey’s specialties included equestrian sculptures – portraits of polo players and prize horses, as well as of cowboys, cattle and horses as metaphors. He worked principally in bronze and stone, often employing mythology and historical themes articulated in private commissions for freestanding statuary and in public monuments. His 40-foot bas relief panels of Indians, horses and buffalos for the Manhattan Bridge and the heroic subject matter of Rice Stadium commission are examples.
The estate of Charles Rumsey...
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Diosa Original bronze multiple. Esculpture Modernist
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Diosa. Original bronze multiple. Esculpture Modernist
Julien Caussé (also given as Cadet-Julien Caussé, Cadet Julien Caussé and Julien Cadet Caussé) (1869–1914) was a prolific French...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roman Bronze Statue of Youth
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Roman Grand Tour bronze figure of a youth. Wonderful patina. Measures : Statue is 23"H. Base is 8.75"W x 7.5"D.
Category
Early 1900s Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1900s Marble Relief Rondelle
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Hand-carved, white marble, relief medallion of famous Danish sculptor, Betel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) who has an entire museum dedicated to his work in Copenhagen.
Category
Early 1900s Metal Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Iron
The Song
By Félix Charpentier
Located in PARIS, FR
"The Song" by Félix Charpentier (1858-1924)
A very fine bronze sculpture with nuanced dark brown patina
Signed "Fx. Charpentier"
Cast by "E. Colin & Cie Paris"
France
around 1900
he...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Poule Cayenne, by François Pompon, 1900's, sculpture, animal, bronze, chicken
Located in Geneva, CH
Poule cayenne - Poule faisanne, 1st proof, 1906
Bronze with a black patina
28 x 22 13 cm
Signed on the base : POMPON. Seal of the founder Cire Perdue A.A. Hebrard. Numbered (M)
Certi...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fine & Very Large Belle Epoque Porcelain and Enamel Elephant, France circa 1900
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Very Large Porcelain Elephant
France, circa 1900
Porcelain, enamels
28 x 14 1/2 x 9 inches
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Gold, Enamel
The Calf (Il Vitello) - Silver Sculpture - Sculpture by Sirio Tofanari - 1900 ca
Located in Roma, IT
A sculptor of animals, Sirio Tofanari (Florence 1886 – Milan 1969) is not inclined to the school discipline, he decides to learn and train as self-taught by travelling around Europe ...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Metal Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Antique Bronze Dog Portrait of a Cavalier King Charles "Thigley" circa 1905
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Dog Portrait of a Cavalier King Charles
"Thigley"
French School (possibly Franck Burty Haviland)
Lost wax bronze casting
Circa 1910
5 7/8 x 9 x 3 1/4
A sophisticated bronze casting of a Cavalier King Charles spaniel made in lost wax casting (cire perdue) from the beginning of the 20th century by Valsuani Foundry. This an unusual bronze approached in its aesthetic that’s reminiscent of the work of great animal sculptors of the second half of the 19th century except in this presentation which is more avant-garde for the time with a much looser, more impressionistic execution. The patina is a superb bronze color, brown and slightly greenish, going in places towards a more antique green.
The attitude of the dog is extremely well and sensitively rendered with the placement of material unlike the renderings of a bronze by Barye...
Category
Early 1900s French School Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Art Nouveau Bronze Female Bust "Phryne" Emanuel Villanis 1900
Located in Portland, OR
Antique, Art Nouveau bronze of a beautiful maiden in the Neo-Classical manner by Emmanuel Villanis, Circa 1900.
The bronze, titled "Phryne" depicts a beautiful Neo-Classical maiden, ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
British Relief Bronze Portrait of Sir Henry Irving by Albert Toft
Located in London, GB
ALBERT TOFT
(1862-1949)
Relief Portrait of Sir Henry Irving
Indistinctly signed l.r.: Albert Toft
Bronze, dark brown patina, on wooden base
Diameter 24....
Category
Early 1900s Realist Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Victory - Athletic Young Man in Classical Pose, ( Female Sculptor )
By Evelyn Beatrice Longman
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyn Beatrice Longman was a trailblazing female artist getting major commissions at the very begining of the 20th century.
Having lived in New York City, I used to walk by the li...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jose Cardona Ferro Bronze Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jose Cardona Ferro: 1878-1923. Well listed Spanish artist also known as just Jose Cardona. He has had auction prices over $4000. This charming bronze of a...
Category
Early 1900s Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
After Albert-Ernest Carrier Belleuse Bisque Plotchrome Persian Maiden
Located in Soquel, CA
Bisque bust with ploychrome enamel decorated with painted gilt and raised on a circular socle with a square plinth. After Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse by Ferdinand and Bing Co. an ...
Category
Early 1900s Aesthetic Movement Metal Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
The Mother - British Old Bronze Sculpture Dark Brown Patina Albert Toft Original
Located in Sofia, BG
"The Mother" is a bronze sculpture by the English professor of modeling and sculpture Albert Toft.
About the artwork
The bronze is covered with dark brown...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Nigeria-Yoruba Medicine Staff, " Hand Forged Iron created c. 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nigerian Yoruba Medicine Staff" is a hand-forged iron implement created for medical practice in Nigeria. It depicts a central stick with a bird ...
Category
Early 1900s Metal Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Agathon Léonard Art Nouveau Bronze "Danseuse au flambeaux"
Located in Berlin, DE
Awesome Art Nouveau sculpture by Agathon Léonard ( Lille 1841-1923 Paris ). Gilded bronze, circa 1900. Signed on the back: A Léonard sclp and foundry...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Female Torso by Rudolf Kaesbach, circa 1905
By Rudolf Kaesbach
Located in Berlin, DE
Nude sculpture, ca. 1905 by Rudolf Kaesbach ( 1873-1955 ), Germany. Bronze with brown patina. Signed: R.KAESBACH
Height: 37,8 in ( 96 cm ), Wi...
Category
Early 1900s Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mr. Universe
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Mr. Universe, 1990
painted bronze, ed. 5 of 9
31 1/4 x 14 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.
79.38 x 37.47 x 37.47 cm
Category
Early 1900s Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
La Cothurne
Located in Missouri, MO
"La Cothurne" 1901
Gilt Bronze
Approx 21.5" High (to raised hand)
Signed and Dated
Foundry Mark "Susse Freres"
Originally modeled in white biscuit porcelain this Greek dancer is a from a set of eight created for a dining table. They were immediately successful when they were exhibited in the Sevres pavilion at the 1900 Exhibition. Individual figures could be ordered and "La Cothurne" proved the most popular. Their success led to the firm of Susse buying the right to cast versions in metal.
Agathon Leonard (1841-1923) is one of the well-known French Art Nouveau sculptors. Born in Lille in 1841, he first studied there before moving to Paris where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under Eugene Delaplanche.
He gained recognition at the annual Expositiones Universelles, winning a Silver Medal there in 1889 and gold in 1900. His most important piece, Jeu L'echarpe, was the best known series of Sevres production at the turn of the century and sold out at the 1900 Expo in Paris and later was given as a gift by the French Gov't to Nicholas II at the Hermitage.
His bronzes were cast at the Susse Freres Editeurs Foundry. He worked also in marble, quartz and ivory. He also produced Art Nouveau medallions...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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