Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
French, 1824-1910
Emmanuel Frémiet was born in Paris, France in 1824 and was brought into an upper middle-class family that had very close ties to the world of art. His family was filled with great artists and this included his Cousin Sophie who married a famous sculptor called Francois Rude. Emmanuel’s mother was also an accomplished artist who constantly encouraged him and brought him up into the world of art. At the age of five, he was already was receiving formal training in art in a private school. The start at a young age meant he was able to be accepted at the spectacular Ecole des Arts Decoratifs School at the age of sixteen.
Throughout this period he learned everything he needed to then become employed by Werner as his head lithographer within a year, whose duties were to prepare drawings of both animals and men. After a long period of convincing by Sophie and Emmanuel, Francois Rude took Emmanuel as a pupil in his studio to further his learning in modeling and sculpture work.
Throughout his young life, he spent a lot of time in zoological gardens and participated in dissections of any animals which had passed away during this time. By the age of seven, he had been exposed to a wide range of different wild animals. To further Emmanuel’s path in art, he was appointed the successor of Antoine Louis Barye as Professor of Drawing after Antoine’s death in 1875. With this new position and like many other great sculptors, he spent a lot of time studying and drawing at the morgue and even went to various embalmers across Paris. This was all of his training to give him the exact measurements and to be able to reproduce the muscle and bone structure of the many men and animals that he witnessed.
His first sculpture was exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1843 when he was nineteen and he continued to exhibit his magnificent sculptures for the rest of his life at the Salon. He was even awarded various medals and awards from many of his pieces. As he began with the bronze sculptures, he made many small animal bronzes with very fine detail which are nowadays highly sought after by collectors and museums alike. There were many sculptors during this time that crafted pieces in which showed a cruel nature, but Emmanuel was known for the soft and gentle pieces of work which often were amusing. At the age of twenty-five, he was to receive more commissions than any other sculptor before or during his time. It became near impossible to be able to walk the streets without seeing one of Emmanuel’s many smaller bronze sculptures.
This amazing sculptor continued crafting works, but also proceeded to train new sculptors, taking on near twenty pupils each time. Unfortunately, this great sculptor passed away in 1910.to
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Creator: Emmanuel Fremiet
Louis d'Orléans late 19th century bronze sculpture by Emmanuel Fremiet
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
A late 19th century bronze sculpture by Emmanuel Fremiet depicting Prince Royal Louis 1st Duke of Orléans. A later cast of the original sculpture erected in the courtyard of the Chât...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
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'Jeanne d'Arc' Stunning Early Salon version of the Famous Sculpture by Fremiet
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
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Late 19th Century French Antique Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
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Bronze Cat Figurine by Emmanuel Fremiet
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
This exquisite bronze figurine from the early 1900s, by renowned French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet, depicts a seated cat with exceptional elegance and realism. The sculpture captures ...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
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19th Century Bronze Sculpture of a Spitz Dog - by Emmanuel Frémiet
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A Bronze sculpture of a lying Spitz dag. The bronze has a warm brown patina. On a Nero Portoro Marble plinth.
Beautiful quality, very refined bronze with great attention to detail. ...
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1890s French Belle Époque Antique Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
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Joan Of Arc On Horseback - Emmanuel Fremiet (1824-1910)
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Charmes, FR
Equestrian group in bronze with silver patinasigned "Fremiet" on the basecast by "F. Barbedienne Fondeur Paris" (founder's mark) in very good conditionSimilar model reproduced in "Em...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
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Neo-Greek Inkwell by C.G. Diehl, E. Frémiet and J. Brandely, France, Circa 1867
By Emmanuel Fremiet, Jean Brandely, Charles-Guillaume Diehl
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed Diehl à Paris.
Wood and silvered copper inkwell. Central drawer ornamented with an escutcheon and flanked by two small lateral drawers forming two containers, surmounted by a lid representing a nestling. Central niche ornamented with a winged creature. Inkwell flanked by two felines. Toped by a penholder representing a Moorish head resting on an eagle claw.
This exceptional piece was realized thanks to the collaboration of ornemanist J. Brandely, sculptor E. Frémiet and cabinet-maker C.-G. Diehl. The motif of the fantasy creature dear to Diehl, is to be seen on the famous cabinet made by him in 1867 and now exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Inv. 1989.197).
Arriving in Paris in about 1840 Charles-Guillaume Diehl (1811-1885) founded his cabinet making and decoration firm at 19 rue Michel-le-Comte in 1885. His workshops produced elegant little pieces of furniture in rosewood and thuja and novelties with bronze and porcelain embellishments (see “Les ébénistes du XIXème siècle”, D. Ledoux-Lebard, Ed. de l’amateur, 1982, p.164). It was his luxury boxes, however (liqueur cellarettes, cigar cabinets, games boxes, cashmere cases, jewelry cases) which assured Diehl’s renown (see “l’Art en France sous le Second Empire”, Exposition Grand-Palais, Paris, 1979, p.133). Already rewarded with a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 in Paris, he exhibited a jardinière with china columns and a liqueur cabinet at the Industrial Arts Exhibition in 1861.
In collaboration with the designer Jean Brandely (active from 1867 until 1873), Diehl renovated his decorative repertory and created astonishing pieces of furniture in the Grecian style which had a dazzling success at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867, where his cabinets also won a silver medal. Certain motifs were so typical of Diehl’s work that they received extensive commentary by the art critic J. Mesnard in his book “Les Merveilles de l’Exposition Universal de 1867” (vol. II, pp. 133 & 149). He writes of a table of which “the pendant bearing hooks and the fan shaped radiating motif which ornaments the entablature are engraved with love” (p. 133) and a jewelry case where “The head in fine Grecian style makes up the essential part of the fine gilt bronze ornamentation” (p. 149).
For this Universal Exhibition Diehl also formed a partnership with two famous sculptors: Emile Guillemin (1841-1907) who carved the relief for a mahogany sideboard with galvanic gilt bronzes (Orsay Museum, Paris, Inv. O.A.O. 992) and Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910) who executed the low relief for a cedar medal cabinet...
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1860s French Greek Revival Antique Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
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Bronze Sculpture of a Gaulish Chief, Signed FREMIET.
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Bronze sculpture of a Gaulish chief, signed FREMIET.
Bronze sculpture signed FREMIET, representing a Gaulish chief, 19th century, Napoleon III period.
H: 37cm, W: 26cm, D: 8,5cm
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
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French 19th Century Gilt Bronze & Marble Sculpture by Emmanuel Frémiet
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A traditional gilt bronze sculpture by Emmanuel Frémiet standing on a marble base, portraying St. Hubert riding a horse while he shows a flag depicting Jesus crucified, symbolizing h...
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19th Century French Antique Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
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Bronze Of Saint Louis, Signed By Emmanuel Fremiet
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Charmes, FR
Emmanuel Fremiet (1824-1910), Saint Louis, silver-patinated bronze Signed on the bronze base, and with the initials of Saint Louis on the front. Presented on a Napoleonic red marble ...
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Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
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French Antique Bronze Sculpture “Standing Greyhound” by Emmanuel Fremiet
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Shippensburg, PA
EMMANUEL FREMIET
French, 1824-1910
"Chien Levrier"
Patinated bronze signed E. Fremiet in naturalistic base cold-stamped 85, a Charles More cast
Item # 411PRB18X
An exquisite mo...
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19th Century French Romantic Antique Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
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Rare Emmanuel Fremiet “Husky Dog” Bronze Sculpture, Charles More cast no. 38
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Shippensburg, PA
EMMANUEL FREMIET
French, 1824-1910
Chien loulou couché
Nuanced medium-brown patina on sand-cast bronze Signed in base "E. FREMIET" a Charles More cast numbered 38
Item # 311GTS04P ...
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19th Century French Romantic Antique Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
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French Antique Bronze Sculpture of Husky Dog by Emmanuel Fremiet
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Shippensburg, PA
A good lifetime casting by Charles More numbered 215, it captures the entirely relaxed spirit of the recumbant husky dog with its bushy tail bouncing and eye...
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19th Century French Romantic Antique Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
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Bronze sculpture of two bassets
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in Paris, FR
Bronze sculpture of two bassets hounds (Ravageot et Ravageode) by Emmanuel Frémiet
Signed
France, early 19th century
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19th Century French Antique Emmanuel Fremiet Decorative Objects
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Page No: 35
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