Bronze "The Sleeping Ariadne" Also Called "Cleopatra" after the Antique

Sculpture in patinated bronze representing a seated child feeding a bird, after Pigalle. The original "the girl with the bird and the shell" is a counterpart of "the child with the cage" by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. The naked child...

Sculpture in bronze representing Diana the hunter after Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741- 1828). In Roman mythology, Diana is the goddess of the hunt and of the night, similar to Artemis in...

Green patina bronze proof of a cupid stringing his bow, after a marble original presented at the 1814 Salon by Charles Gabriel Sauvage dit Lemire (1741-1827). Love is shown seated an...

19th century bronze group with brown patina after the self-portrait with her daughter, Jeanne-Lucie-Louise called Julie, realized by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun...

This late Georgian antique marble statue is after the antique, depicting a scale fragment of the eminent 2nd century statue ‘Sleeping Ariadne’. C...

Signed Clodion From our Sculpture collection, we are pleased to offer this French Belle Epoque Bronze of Ariadne cast after Clodion (Claude Michel). The sculpture of fine casting and beautiful patination is sculpted as a bust of a Ariadne in nature with her hair tied up and leaves intwined in her hair. The Bronze sits upon a circular socle with a square base signed to the right hand face Clodion. The Bronze cast after the original during the neoclassical era dating to the second half of the 19th century during the Belle Epoque era (c.1970-1914) circa 1875. Clodion was the alias of Claude Michel (1738-1814) a French born sculptor working in the Rococo style, especially noted for his works in marble, bronze, & terracotta. Many of Clodion’s works feature in museum collections around the world with some of his most pivotal works including The Intoxication of Wine and The Dance of Time. Ariadne In Greek mythology was a Cretan princess and the daughter of King Minos of Crete. Ariadne was known for aiding Theseus escape the Minotaur and then being abandoned by him on the island of Naxos. There, Dionysus saw Ariadne sleeping, fell in love with her, and later married her. Many versions of the myth recount Dionysus throwing Ariadne’s jewelled crown into the sky to create a constellation, the Corona Borealis...

19th C. Georges Bareau French Bronze Marble Sleeping Ariadne Statue Sculpture. Item features finely cast drapery, hair, feet, and hands. This sculpture ...

The philosopher in oratorical pose, with an urn of his writings at his feet. A 19th century casting, good crisp quality on marble base.