Sculpture of Stalking Tiger in Marble

A carved marble group with two cranes on a rocky base, one crane shown with head down harvesting aquatic plants, the other upright with aquatic plants in its beak, both birds with fi...

A pair of stoneware pastoral figures on cylindrical pedestals, the male figure in peasant dress with sheaf of wheat on proper right shoulder and the female figure, also in rustic dre...

A fine cast-iron figure of Diana de Gabii, the Goddess standing next to a tree trunk and draped in robes, on its integral base. This model of Diana is one of many replicas derived f...

A composition stone figure of a gentleman, standing in long coat and knickers and wearing a wide-brim hat, his proper left hand grazing his chin, his pensive countenance with downwar...

Child sculpture in bronze and marble

Liberty sculpture in Bronze and marble. French-Austrian sculptor, Friedrich Solomon Beer (1846-1912)

Cast marble bust of a Roman child set on a base size: 3.50 H x 5.25 W x 6 D.base size

F. Barbedienne fonduer Ferdinand Barbedienne (6 August 1810 – 21 March 1892) was a French metalworker and manufacturer, who was well known as a bronze founder. The son of a small farmer from Calvados, he started his career as a dealer in wallpaper in Paris. In 1838 he went into partnership with Achille Collas (1795-1859), who had just invented a machine to create miniature bronze replicas of statues. Together they started a business selling miniatures of antique statues from museums all over Europe, thus democratising art and making it more accessible to households.[2] From 1843 they extended their scope by reproducing the work of living artists and also diversified by making enamelled household objects. With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 the firm briefly had to switch to cannon founding owing to the shortage of metals but resumed business afterwards. Following Barbedienne's death in 1892, he was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery and the firm was carried on by his nephew Gustave Leblanc until 1952. Among the principal artists reproduced by the firm were Antoine Louis Barye and Auguste Rodin. The Dying Galata (Italian: Galata morente...