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Art Subject: People
Figural Bronze of Narcissus or Dionysus
Located in Milford, NH
A fine Grand Tour Italian Classical cast patinated bronze figure of Narcissus or Dionysus, dating to the last quarter of the 19th century. Very good overall condition, with the modes...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rob by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative sculpture.
Located in Coltishall, GB
Rob is a figurative bronze sculpture in a relaxed pose by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Grand Tour Bronze Greco-Roman Uffizi Wrestlers Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in Rochester, NY
Grand tour circa 1860s bronze of the Wrestlers. Rich fine dark brown patina. Marked "F. Barbedienne Fondeur." The Wrestlers also known as The Two Wrestlers, The Uffizi Wrestlers...
Category
Mid-19th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Puberta Standing Figure Bronze Sculpture Nude Body
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
Puberta Standing Figure Bronze Sculpture Nude Body
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1950 – Saint-Julien (Var), Fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dansante Bronze Sculpture Torso Naked Dancing Contemporary
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
Dansante Bronze Sculpture Torso Naked Dancing Contemporary
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1950 – Sa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Were They Angels - Jesmonite & Earth Pigment / Limited Edition Sculpture
Located in London, GB
Limited Edition - 38/100
Manny skilfully moulds and casts all her own sculptures in jesmonite or resin with graphite and bronze. The patina is then achieved by the laying on of eart...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Pigment, Resin
'Can't Get Her Off My Mind' Ceramic Sculpture
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Can't Get Her Off My Mind" is an original ceramic sculpture created by Steven Kemenyffy.
43"x30"x14"
Ceramic
Steven Kemenyffy (born 1943) is an American ceramic artist living and working in Pennsylvania. He is most recognized for his contributions to the development of the American ceramic raku tradition. He has served as a Professor of Ceramic Art at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (formerly Edinboro State College) since 1969. He Has retired from teaching, but continues to produce artwork at his home studio in McKean, Pennsylvania. Kemenyffy is often characterized in regard to his contributions to American experimental ceramics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. More specifically, Kemenyffy’s contributions to American raku techniques are often cited. Kemenyffy has stated that his interest in raku came out of practical considerations: “We [Steven and Susan] were doing a variety of workshops in a variety of different media. Raku was always an official way of making pieces in a short period of time…In raku it seems to compress all the firings into one.” Kemenyffy, himself, describes his early work as “Biomorphic forms alluding to old ceramic traditions such as tiles, vases, and containers.” These works were often in excess of six feet tall and many times included mixed media elements. In 1974, Kemenyffy wrote about the work he was producing; “For several years now, my work has dealt with certain formal considerations. Chief among these is using clay in such a way as to crystallize the moment and permanentize the impermanent. These have been among the primary concerns of all potters since the earliest times.” Today, Kemenyffy continues his pursuit of biomorphic imagery and themes. He writes, “Personally I am most challenged by the business of transforming porous organics into porcelain.” For much of Kemenyffy’s career, he has worked in tandem with his wife, Susan Hale Kemenyffy. In 1987 Susan stated about their collaborative works: “Steven is the [sculptor], I am the drawer. These works would not exist if it weren’t for the sculpture; if it weren’t for the clay. The clay entity comes first and my drawings come second.” James Paul Thompson further clarifies this relationship (as observed in 1987): “Steven Kemenyffy uses patterns as a point of departure for his work, while Susan Kemenyffy...
Category
1980s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Zenith Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classic Contemporary Nude Male Figure
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Zenith Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classic Contemporary Nude Male Figure. Size is including pedestal.
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect comma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Femminile Bronze Sculpture Standing Woman Torso Lady Nude Brown Patina
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
Femminile Bronze Sculpture Standing Woman Torso Lady Nude Brown Patina
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Gaia
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 Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Unveiling - Sculpture by Maryam Pezeshki - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Unveiling is a contemporary artwork realized by Maryam Pezeshki in 2021
Terracotta sculpture.
Original title: Svelamento
Maryam Pezeshki was born in Tehran on August 18, 1977. SHe began to paint at the age of three. Her first painting was a Pinocchio. Participate in national and international painting competitions and festivals among Asian and Iranian children, winning first prize each time. At the age of ten she participated in a television program entitled "Little Great Artists". At the age of fourteen she won the prize for the best drawing and sculpture among Iranian teenagers, and she enrolled in the artistic high school, continuing to do her first personal exhibitions of sculpture, painting and drawing. From the age of seventeen to nineteen she won the national prize for best sculpture at the youth festival for three consecutive years. At seventeen he enrolled at the University of Art in the graphics sector and at twenty-one he graduated with full marks. In the same year she began studying for the master of graphics and managed to be among the seven students admitted. At the age of twenty-five she finished his studies and won a competition for teaching drawing and sculpture at the University of Art. In the meantime, visit the European and Indian museums...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Bronze Female Statue "Le Crépuscule" by Emile Andre Boisseau
Located in New York, NY
Emile-Andre Boisseau (French, 1842-1923)
Le Crépuscule
signed 'E. Boisseau' (on the base)
Bronze
height: 29 in. (74 cm.)
Emile-André Boisseau was a...
Category
19th Century Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pan and Siringa
Located in Roma, RM
Jafet Torelli (active in Florence in the second half of the 19th century), Pan and Siringa
Terracotta sculpture 54 x 22 x 22 cm signed Torelli Firenze on the base.
Category
19th Century Academic Nude Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
PASSION
Located in Istanbul, 34
Female portraits made with tile technique on ceramic tiles.
Cansu Sakız was born in 1987 in Bartın. She studied painting at Fine Arts High School before moving to Dokuz Eylul University Fine Arts Faculty. She studied Turkish Tile Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Le Papillon, Bronze Scuplture by Jeanne Isabelle Cornière, 2016
Located in London, GB
Le Papillon, Bronze Scuplture by Jeanne Isabelle Cornière, 2016
Exploring the theme of childhood, memory, and time, Isabelle Cornière’s work is an extension of her research, reflections and poetry. As a meditative investigation on human nature, Cornière creates her elegant sculptures out of bronze, coated with timeless white chalk that is then hand painted, and often paired with delicate glass...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Pioneer Family" WPA American Modernism Plaster Maquette Realism 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
"Pioneer Family," 23 1/2 x 16 1/4 x 10 3/4 inPlaster. c. 1927. Unsigned. Realism
The Smithsonian has a cast of this sculpture in its collection. Pictured on the cover of “The Sculpt...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Gloria II by Nando Kallweit. Bronze Sculpture, Edition of 25
Located in Coltishall, GB
Gloria II by Nando Kallweit
Bronze sculpture, edition of 25
Dimensions: 26 x 19 x 7cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Reni by Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze Sculpture.
Located in Coltishall, GB
Reni by Nando Kallweit. An elegant figurative bronze sculpture of the female form.
Edition of 25
Dimensions: 21cm tall
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ian Edwards - Surrender - Original Signed Bronze Sculpure
By Ian Edwards
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Ian Edwards - Surrender - Original Signed Bronze Sculpure
Dimensions: 32 x 60 x 60 cm
Edition of 9
Edwards’ practice expresses the power and determination of human endeavour. He
draws inspiration from natural forces, with his powerful masculine figures often
bearing the surface texture of time enduring landscapes. Edwards uses this external
inspiration to explore very internal themes of fortitude and self-discovery.
Edwards’ sensitive hand as a sculptor incorporates classical ideas about the
sculpting process. In both Self Made Man and Creation of Self, a figure carves
himself out of a mass of rock, reminiscent of Michelangelo's idea of seeing a form
within a piece of marble and ’setting him free'. This is deeply metaphorical, reflecting
timeless themes of purity, effort and self-belief. Poetic concepts such as these run
throughout Edwards’ practice, with each piece subtly informed through mythological
storytelling, creation beliefs and philosophical thinking.
Edwards served a five-year apprenticeship at the world renowned G&H Studios...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Mythological Kiss Terracotta statue 19 century
Located in Florence, IT
This terracotta represents a mythological scene, in which we can see a centaur kissing with passion a lady, while a man is playing the Pan flute. On the back...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Nude Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Last Heroic Season Bronze Sculpture Classic Contemporary Mythology
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Last Heroic Season Bronze Sculpture Classic Contemporary Mythology
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Monumental Marble Italian Rationalist Figurative Nude Sculptures
Located in Rome, IT
This monumental pair of sculptures in "Bardiglio" marble represent Greek Athlete of Discobolo and the Hercules figure with a lion pelt, on a cylindrical base...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
The Ecstasy of St. Teresa. Porcelain Sculpture, with hand-painted detail
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Ecstasy of St Teresa
One of a kind
“This piece is a part of the Historic Jar Collection and references Bernini’s marble sculpture of the same name. Whil...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Was Bleibet Aber Stiften die Dichter Bronze Sculpture Classic Contemporary Poem
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Was Bleibet Aber Stiften die Dichter Bronze Sculpture Classic Contemporary Poem
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
Azimuth Bronze Sculpture Classical Contemporary Mythology
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Azimuth Bronze Sculpture Classical Contemporary Mythology
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling and sculp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Bronze
Dionysisch Big Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classical Contemporary Art
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Dionysisch Big Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classical Contemporary Art
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, NL) show a perfect command of the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Spirit of the Dead is Watching. Porcelain sculpture with hand-painted details
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Spirit of the Dead is Watching 2018
Porcelain and Gold
One of a kind
This intricate Porcelain and gold piece is part of Alex Hodge’s Historic Jar Collection that celebrates the...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold
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
Florentine artist After Verrocchio Terracotta Putto Fountain 17 century
Located in Florence, IT
Terracotta statue representing a putto blowing with a cloth around his leg. It's inspired by the putto with dolphin by Andrea del Verrocchio, mad...
Category
17th Century Renaissance Nude Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Quinto Martini Female Nude Sculpture 20 century bronze
Located in Florence, IT
The small bronze statue portays a lady standing, with the arms lifted up while she's holding her long hair.
It can be dated to the 30-40 of the 2...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rewind Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classic Contemporary
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Rewind Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classic Contemporary
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss) show a perfect command of the old craft of mod...
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
The Three Graces Sculpture (Antonio Canova) /// Contemporary Classics Colorful
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "The Three Graces Sculpture (Antonio Canova)"
Series: Sculpture
*Signed, titled, and dated by ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Marble
Red Shoes - Cast Sculpture of Human Figure in Jesmonite & Earth Pigments
Located in London, GB
Limited Edition - 22/100
Manny skilfully moulds and casts all her own sculptures in jesmonite or resin with graphite and bronze. The patina is then achieved by the laying on of eart...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Pigment, Resin
Venus de Milo Sculpture (Alexandros of Antioch) /// Contemporary Classics Nude
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Venus de Milo Sculpture (Alexandros of Antioch)"
Series: Sculpture
*Signed, titled, and dated by Graves on bottom
Year: 2022
Medium: Original Acrylic Painted Cast Marble Sculpture
Dimensions: 15.75" tall x 4.38" wide x 4.38" deep
Weight: 5.4 pounds
Condition: In mint condition
Notes:
This is a unique work, not from an edition. The raw white cast marble sculpture itself was not created by the artist; it is a found object which Graves has hand-painted and transformed with his own design. The sculpture is cast marble: over 90% natural crushed Greek Marble stone with a small amount of resin poured into a mold, made in Heraklion, Greece.
The Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period, sometime between 150 and 125 BC. It is one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture, having been prominently displayed at the Louvre Museum since shortly after the statue was rediscovered on the island of Milos...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Marble
Evi by Nando Kallweit. Bronze Sculpture, Edition of 25
Located in Coltishall, GB
Evi is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Nando carved the marque for the body from a piece of oak using a small chain saw. The marque is then used to make th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Harmony, 20th century bronze & green marble base, nude man and woman with lyre
By Max Kalish
Located in Beachwood, OH
Max Kalish (American, 1891-1945)
Harmony, c. 1930
Bronze with green marble base
Incised signature on right upper side of base
14 x 9 x 5 inches, excluding base
17 x 10 x 8 inches, including base
Born in Poland March 1, 1891, figurative sculptor Max Kalish came to the United States in 1894, his family settling in Ohio. A talented youth, Kalish enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art as a fifteen-year-old, receiving a first-place award for modeling the figure during studies with Herman Matzen. Kalish went to New York City following graduation, studying with Isidore Konti...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Mid Century Nude Male Acephale Sculpture in Bronze
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid 20th Century bronze figure of a man presented on an iron 'tige' and marble base.
The sculpture is not signed but was purchased from Nice, France, in the 1970s as a work b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Iron
Donne V by Nando Kallweit. Bronze Sculpture of 3 female figures , Edition of 25
Located in Coltishall, GB
Donne V by Nando Kallweit
Elegant bronze sculpture of 3 female figures.
Edition of 25
Dimensions: 26 x 19 x 7cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Balans Balance Bronze Sculpture Classical Contemporary
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Balans Balance Bronze Sculpture Classical Contemporary . Height including pedestal
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old cra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Aquila Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Marble Stone Contemporary In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Aquila Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Marble Stone Contemporary In Stock - Sculpture without Stone is 57 cm high
Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Marble Sculpture of Roman Mythological subject Apollo
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in white Carrara marble of Apollo head .
Measurements: Statues cm 150, base cm 85.
Category
20th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Sorbe Small Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Drinking Male Figure Marble Stone
Located in Utrecht, NL
Sorbe Small Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Drinking Male Figure Marble Stone
Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist. Next to his busy profession as a teacher at a high sc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Profundus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Contemporary Male Figure Marble Stone
Located in Utrecht, NL
Profundus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Contemporary Male Figure Marble Stone
Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist. Next to his busy p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antigone Bronze Sculpture Classical Contemporary Mythology
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Antigone Bronze Sculpture Classical Contemporary Mythology
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling and sculp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Terracotta bozzetto, dancing woman nude
Located in Greding, DE
Terracotta bozzetto of a dancing female nude with scarf in mannerist style, on square base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Nude Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Tollit Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Contemporary Male Figure Balance Marble Stone
Located in Utrecht, NL
Tollit Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Contemporary Male Figure Balance Marble Stone
Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist. Next to his bu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Dionysisch Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classical Contemporary Art
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Dionysisch Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classical Contemporary Art. Including Pedestal 130 cm
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss) show a perfect command of the old craft of mod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Contemporary Reclining Bronze Nude Figurative Sculpture 'Spirit' by Carl Payne
By Carl Payne
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Spirit' by Carl Payne is a 20th Century Solid Bronze Nude Figurative Sculpture.
Carl is a Staffordshire based sculptor for whom art has played a large part in his academic work taking him through the Burslem School of Art, the Henry Doulton School of Sculpture and then to Stafford College.
After qualifying in Figurative Sculpture he launched his career with commission after commission which has now secured his reputation for fine quality workmanship both in life-size format and smaller decorative pieces.
The list of his completed commissioned work is extensive, including many ‘house-hold’ names from the sporting world, commerce and the past.
The following are just some of the private and publicly commissioned completed works that form Carl’s prestigious portfolio:-
King George 5th and Queen Mary – life size portrait buste commissioned by Cunards Cruise Ships and located in the ballroom of the Queen Mary 2 (QM2) cruise ship. Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross – life size and a quarter commissioned by Banbury Council, located at Banbury Cross and unveiled by Princess Anne. Randolph Turpin – life size and a quarter - commissioned by Warwick and Leamington Spa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Without Title Bronze Sculpture Hand Female Nude Figure Mythology Classic
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Without Title Bronze Sculpture Hand Female Nude Figure Mythology Classic
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft of model...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude 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
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