Items Similar to "Putti" 19th c. Terracotta, Antique, Mythical Figures, Patina

Antique Bronze Putti on Marble Base styled after Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse

19th Century French Patinated Bronze Cherub Composition Signed Raphael Ch. Peyre

19th Century French Antique Terra Cotta Cherub Figurine Statuette Objet d’Art

Cherub with Water Jug Terracotta Sculpture on Verdigris Marble Base

19th C. French Terra Cotta of Putti’s

French 19th Century Putti Bronze Sculpture by Coustou

Want more images or videos?

Request additional images or videos from the seller

1 of 6

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
"Putti" 19th c. Terracotta, Antique, Mythical Figures, Patina
1864

$9,500

£7,203.39

€8,319.83

CA$13,329.08

A$14,848.30

CHF 7,832.24

MX$180,040.20

NOK 99,637.43

SEK 92,818.57

DKK 62,127.44

About the Item

“Putti” is a 19th c. terracotta antique of two nude children, babies, as mythical figures. This piece is beautifully rendered with a rich brown patina. Though babies they seem more mature with their decorative flowers and posed as partaking in conversation. Putti are human (no wings) and male (biologically correct). They are not associated with death. So, the Raphael figure, having wings, is no putto. Second, winged genderless children are cherubs, or more properly, cherubim. This piece is signed by the sculptor and his marks, fingerprints, are on the base of the sculpture which sits on a beautifully carved wooden plinth. Carrier-Belleuse had a sharp sense of how to combine historical elements with new technologies and the process of mass production. In his workshop, students like Auguste Rodin learned the value of series, editions, and variations made alongside unique, monumental Salon submissions. Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (born Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse) was a French sculptor, one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and an officer of the Legion of Honour. He attended the National School of Fine Arts and began his training as a goldsmith's apprentice. In 1840 Pierre-Jean David d'Angers sponsored him for the École des Beaux-Arts. He stayed only briefly, moving to the Petite École to study decorative arts instead. While at the Petite Ecole in the 1840s, Carrier-Belleuse began his lifelong practice of providing commercial houses with models for edition, as statuettes or as ornament for functional pieces. Between 1850 and 1855, Carrier-Belleuse worked in England, designing ceramics and metalwork models for companies like Wedgwood Minton Chica Works at Stoke-upon-Trent, Coalbrookdale Ironworks and Graham & Jackson furniture makers. Even after returning to Paris in 1855, he continued to send models to British firms throughout his life. From 1857 he exhibited large-scale sculptures at the Salon, where he garnered medals and commissions from important patrons. Emperor Napoléon III employed him in public projects during the massive rebuilding of Paris from 1851 to 1870. His work encompassed all manner of sculptural subjects and materials, and his naturalism incorporated a breadth of styles: unembellished Realism, neo-Baroque exuberance, and Rococo elegance. He consistently opposed, however, the static poses and idealizing tendencies of Neoclassicism. His torchères for the Paris Opéra were typical: he combined figures inspired by sixteenth-century sculptors with electrotyping, a new process for replicating three-dimensional objects. Beginning in 1876 Carrier-Belleuse revitalized the Sèvres porcelain manufactory as its artistic director. He began to garner acclaim as a fine-arts sculptor after ten years of showing in the Salon, beginning with two portrait medallions in 1850 and a flurry of busts and groups with mythological or historical subjects between 1857 and 1861, the latter of which earned him a third-class medal. Carrier-Belleuse finally received serious attention in 1863, when the emperor bought his marble Bacchante from the Salon for the Jardins des Tuileries (Musée d'Orsay, Paris). Four years later, his marble Messiah was purchased by the State from the Salon of 1867 and allotted to Saint-Vincent-de-Paul in Paris; it earned him a Medal of Honor and the cross of the Légion d'Honneur. From that time onward, Carrier-Belleuse was established internationally as a high-art sculptor as well. He produced abundantly for a variety of international patrons in most categories of three-dimensional work--public monuments, for example, Masséna (1867, Nice), allegorical reliefs for Parisian buildings (Palais des Tuileries and Banque de France, 1865-1866), tombs for foreign heroes (San Martín Cathedral, Buenos Aires, Argentina), and classicizing figure subjects such as Sleeping Hebe for the Salon (1869, marble; Musée d'Orsay, Paris)--while simultaneously maintaining high visibility in the applied arts. Carrier-Belleuse raised a critical hue and cry during his lifetime with his sensuous female nudes, especially Angélique, shown in 1866 (marble, lost; reduced terracotta variant, private collection). Broadly in the vein of nineteenth-century "voluptuous antiquity," the work pursues more realism and seductive materiality than Pradier's classical women through their violently sinuous movement and polychromy. Like Auguste Clésinger (1814-1883), who had riveted Paris in 1847 with his Woman Bitten by a Snake (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), Carrier-Belleuse violated the idealist canon of pure marble by adding real jewelry of his famous contemporaries such as Froment-Meurice. However, the sculptor applied his enormous capacity for modeling and design to a variety of stylistic and expressive modes. The neo-baroque realism of his heroic monuments differs signally from the neo-rococo preciousness, material richness, and vivacity for which he is best known. Yet he explored few expressive extremes outside the dionysiac. Open violence and pathos are rare in his work; his most typical expressive mood was the intimate and wittily spirited. He consequently gave varied and winsome life to historical figurines and fantasy busts, and was a masterful portraitist. His prolific portraiture of both men and women is often compared to Houdon's, as it similarly conveys extraordinary likeness and psychological life within richly tactile, modeled work. For all his association with rococo sensuality, Carrier-Belleuse's mastery at articulating form gave as much vitality and appeal to the marbles carved from his models as to his many works in clay and bronze. The sculptor sold finished serial work directly through his studio and at auction, and thus counted among the most actively entrepreneurial of his fellow professionals, like Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and his senior, the animalier Christophe Fratin. His models and published designs integrated the human figure within functional forms--torchères and table service, for instance--in a variety of styles, and with imagination and verve; they were commercially successful and influential for decades. Carrier-Belleuse was appointed director of works at the state Manufacture de Sèvres in December 1875, where he greatly improved the quality of the models and expanded production in biscuit. A charter member of the new professional organization for the applied arts (the Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l'Industrie), founded in the early 1860s, he was enormously important in elevating the stature of the applied arts and for the sheer quality of his ornamental design. For that contribution to France alone the artist was promoted to officer of the Légion d'Honneur in 1885. Thanks to his huge studio production and responsibilities at Sèvres, he had considerable impact on the art and careers of younger sculptors who worked for him, notably Auguste Rodin, whether in Paris or in Brussels, where both moved during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871.

Creator:

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824 - 1887)

Creation Year:

1864

Dimensions:

Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)Depth: 7 in (17.78 cm)

Medium:

Terracotta,Wood

Movement & Style:

Baroque

Period:

Late 19th Century

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Detroit, MI

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU128616361932

More From This Seller

View All

"Rebirth" Bronze Sculpture with Patina, Figures, Naked, Male

By Artis Lane

Located in Detroit, MI

All my life I have worked on three levels of consciousness: Portraits, Social Injustice & Metaphysics. In my work I strive to heal, uplift and inspire viewers and collectors to find ...

Category

1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Artis Lane
"Rebirth" Bronze Sculpture with Patina, Figures, Naked, Male, 1990s

Price Upon Request

"Madonna" Bronze Sculpture with Patina, Marble base, Figurative, Female

By Artis Lane

Located in Detroit, MI

All my life I have worked on three levels of consciousness: Portraits, Social Injustice & Metaphysics. In my work I strive to heal, uplift and inspire viewers and collectors to find ...

Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Artis Lane
"Madonna" Bronze Sculpture with Patina, Marble base, Figurative, Female, n. d.

Price Upon Request

"Resonance" Bronze Female Nude Sculpture with Powder Coated Steel Base

Located in Detroit, MI

“Resonance” references Greek classical sculpture and modernist traditions. The female from is depicted as a fragment, introspective and animated. The surface of the sculpture is rich...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

Foster Willey
"Resonance" Bronze Female Nude Sculpture with Powder Coated Steel Base, 2008

$26,000

"Wise Virgin I (Celebration)" Bronze Sculpture, Figurative, Nude Pregnant Female

By Artis Lane

Located in Detroit, MI

All my life I have worked on three levels of consciousness: Portraits, Social Injustice & Metaphysics In my work. I strive to heal, uplift and inspire viewers and collectors to find ...

Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Artis Lane
"Wise Virgin I (Celebration)" Bronze Sculpture, Figurative, Nude Pregnant Female

Price Upon Request

"Woman" Bronze Sculpture with Patina, Female Nude

By Artis Lane

Located in Detroit, MI

All my life I have worked on three levels of consciousness: Portraits, Social Injustice & Metaphysics In my work I strive to heal, uplift and inspire viewers and collectors to find p...

Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Artis Lane
"Woman" Bronze Sculpture with Patina, Female Nude, 1989

Price Upon Request

"Birth" Sculpture, Bronze with Black Patina, Female, Nude

By Artis Lane

Located in Detroit, MI

"Birth" is a small intimate sculpture of a women in the act of pending birth. She gazes skyward beyond her own condition of birthing an earthly being, to encompass the intellectual a...

Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Nude Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Artis Lane
"Birth" Sculpture, Bronze with Black Patina, Female, Nude

Price Upon Request

Antique Late 19th Century Unknown Baroque Revival Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Antique Bronze Putti on Marble Base styled after Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse

$2,500

19th Century French Patinated Bronze Cherub Composition Signed Raphael Ch. Peyre

By Charles Raphaël Peyre

Located in Dallas, TX

Decorate an office or study with this elegant antique bronze composition of children playing with flowers. Crafted in France circa 1895 and built of bronze, the cheerful composition ...

Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

19th Century French Patinated Bronze Cherub Composition Signed Raphael Ch. Peyre

$3,200

19th Century French Antique Terra Cotta Cherub Figurine Statuette Objet d’Art

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

This antique, elegant early 19th Century allegoric figure composition was hand crafted in terracotta clay and placed on an oval wooden base, in good condition. Two cherubs are drapin...

Category

Antique Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Clay, Terracotta, Wood

19th Century French Antique Terra Cotta Cherub Figurine Statuette Objet d’Art

$3,900

Cherub with Water Jug Terracotta Sculpture on Verdigris Marble Base

Located in New York, NY

Cherub with water jug Terracotta sculpture on Verdigris marble base after a model by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. Apparently unsigned.

Category

Antique Late 19th Century Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble

Cherub with Water Jug Terracotta Sculpture on Verdigris Marble Base

$3,500

19th C. French Terra Cotta of Putti’s

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This is a charming 19th century French terracotta sculpture depicting two playful putti in a spirited pose, likely representing allegorical or pastoral themes common to the period. T...

Category

Antique 19th Century French Rococo Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Terracotta, Wood

19th C. French Terra Cotta of Putti’s

$660

French 19th Century Putti Bronze Sculpture by Coustou

By Coustou

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Endearing patinated bronze sculpture depicting a young putti sitting on a pair of cushions and. supported by a D'ore bronze base with floral motif designs. Signed "Des Coustou" and a...

Category