Menacing Love, after E. M. Falconet, Bronze, Late 19th Century

After Clodion. Pair of bronze ewers with two patinas representing bacchanalia scenes after Clodion. Circular base with gadroon piedouche decora...

Chiselled and gilt bronze inkwell made of with a scalloped red lacquer tray with a moulded gilt bronze edge with a decor of gadroons, flowers and foliage. Chinese style red lacquer t...

Pair of gilt brass and bronze bottle-shaped lamps, standing on an arabesque engraved base. A bamboo frieze underline the belly and the neck. Work from the second half of the 19th ce...

Pair of two patina bronze, brown and gold, Renaissance style firedogs standing on two lion paws. Scotie shape firedogs’s body lower part adorned with a three ends banner and framed ...

Louis XVI style table clock in chiseled and gilt bronze. The case is in “architectural drawing” style shape, adorned with porcelain plates decorated with baskets of flowers in white ...

Framed oil on canvas representing two women in a couch. The right one is dressed in sweet pink and comfortably sat on wide pillows, a open book on her knees. Her friend is holding a ...

Bronze group with brown patina featuring Cupids fighting over a heart after Etienne-Maurice Falconet (1716-1791). This work had a great success in the second half of the 19th century...

An enchanting and classical late 19th century patinated bronze study of two cherubs wrestling over a heart, after Etienne-Maurice Falconet (1716-1791).

Magnificent and large sculpture in patinated terracotta, entitled “Deux amours disputant un cœur” after Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716-1791), resting on a terrace decorated with a frieze of pearls and wrapped reeds, the second half of the 19th century, and is distributed in bronze, marble, alabaster, terracotta. Two winged loves are depicted in a fight to retrieve a heart figured on the base. Period: End of 19th Century Circa: 1898 - 1900 Dimensions: height: 50cm - width of the base: 28cm Signed: "Falconet" on the terrace. Marked hollow: GC Below Artist, man of letters and esthetician, the career of sculptor Etienne Maurice Falconet (1716 - 1791) is particularly exemplary. Overcoming the handicap of his birth, this brilliant autodidact with an extraordinary personality has rubbed shoulders with the greatest. Protected by Mme de Pompadour, a friend of Diderot and the Encyclopedists, he has established himself by his talent and his culture. The work carried out at Saint Roch church and his position as director of sculpture work at the Manufacture de Sèvres are in a way the prelude to his work in Saint Petersburg. The imposing Bronze Horseman...

A very fine French 19th century Patinated bronze Figure of "Milo of Croton and the Lion" after the marble sculpture of Milon de Crotone by renown French...

Beautiful antique terracotta sculpture, depicting Cupid taking an arrow from his quiver to shoot with his bow. The statue is inspired by ...

A charming and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and Breche Violette marble statue after Étienne-Maurice Falconet. The statue is raised by a circular marble base ...