Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clesinger Sculptures

Bronze sculpture by Victor Roman. Signed and numbered 2/8.

Antique bronze sculpture with beautiful patina, mounted on a black marble base, portraying the seated figure of a young woman in pastoral garb with flowers in her lap, designed by A....

AUGUSTE JEAN-BAPTISTE CLÉSINGER French, 1814-1883 Restoration of the "Two Fates" after Antiquity Gilt and patinated bronze on original conforming wood base engraved in cast "F. BA...

This large patinated bronze antique sculpture depicts the Classical figure Penelope, the wife of Odysseus (Roman name Ulysses) who appears in ...

Belgian patinated bronze bust by Lambeaux Belgian, late 19th Century Measures: Height 63cm, width 35cm, depth 15cm This charming patinated b...

Inscribed F. Barbedienne with the Collas reduction.

Life size bronze bust of George Washington on square shaped black marble base (signed BARBEDIENNE) 19th Cent.

Bronze representing Roman soldier with child black marble base, 19th century. Note that the marble has been restored to a height of 46 cm for a width of 37 cm and a depth of 18 cm. ...

A fine antique miniature bronze. A miniature portrait bust of Molière, the alias of the playwright Jean Baptiste Poquelin. Modeled after the original by Jean-Antoine Houdon. ...

Bronze sculpture of a bull (Taureau Chargeants) Designed by Pierre Chenet. From France, late 20th century Beautiful colour and patina. Dimensions: 39W x 28H x 14D cm

This fine and exceptionally cast patinated bronze sculpture is the work of two masters of the decorative arts, Henri Chapu (French, 1833-1891) and Ferdinand Barbedienne (French, 1810-1892). Chapu was responsible for the design of the sculpture which is titled 'La Jeunesse' and depicts a young girl swathed in Classical style clothing reaching up to place a laurel branch on top of a wall. The original work was crafted in white marble as part of a monument to Henri Regnault...

Bronze sculpture with a brown patina shaded in green signed Pigalle on the base, representing a child surprised by a crayfish's pinching. Tears are running down the cheeks of the naked child, sitting on a large shell, as he has just been pinched by a crayfish. The sculpture rests on a green marble base. Jean-Baptiste Pigalle is a great French sculptor born in Paris in 1714. At a very young age, he studied sculpture and became aware that his art was the meaning of his life. He moved to Italy in 1734 to perfect his technique. Then, he joined the Beaux-Arts, thanks to his work "Mercury attaching his heel" (1740) which had an immediate success. Several artists have a copy, painters represent it on their canvases, and a biscuit reduction is made by the manufacture of Sevres in 1770. Very quickly the orders multiplied and Mme de Pompadour took him under her wing. Juggling between baroque and classical styles, he made portraits of Diderot and Voltaire and then realized the famous funeral monuments...