Patinated Figurative Sculptures

A Fine Patinated Bronze Group, Entitled 'Thesée Combattant le Centaure Bianor' ('Theseus Fighting the Centaur Bianor'), Cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne, From the Model By Antoine Louis...

A Woman with Roses 19th Century spelter statue and column of a young woman in a flowing dress, rose garland on her head and rose on her lapel, a floral motif, signed“Aug Moreau” on t...

Fabulous Art Deco Sculpture after Paul Manship (1885–1966) of Actaeon and his dogs as he transform from man into stag. Manship had an ongoing fascination with Greek and Roman mytho...

Enigma Art Deco bronze sculpture seated nude with bracelet by Maurice Guiraud Rivière. With Les Neveux de Lehmann Paris Foundry seal. Numbered. Presented at the Exhibition of 1925. ...

This pair of antique sculptures are unsigned, but presumed to have originated from France and date to approximately 1850 and done in a period Renaissance Revival style. The sculpture...

This bronze has all the ingredients needed to make it very special. The subject matter a sexy nude beauty looking into a Cheval mirror, the patina, detailed casting, and remarkable ...

A stunning vintage Art Deco patinated bronze sculpture. It is a statue of a beautifully costumed & detailed Flamenco lady dancer & contains some cold painted elements. The bronze is ...

Superb large model medal patina sand cast bronze sculpture by the French romantic period artist Charles-Auguste Lebourg (1826-1906) titled "The Work". Representation of a blacksmith ...

This small and very well executed sculpture is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from England and date to approximately 1920 and done in the period Art Deco style. The sculpt...

André BELO (1908-1976, France) :"Motherhood" (Maternité) Modernist patinated bronze sculpture showing a stylished mother and her baby playing together on a white and yellow veine...

French patinated Bronze figure of a sea nymph after the original by Gustavo Obiols (1858-1910) exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1896.

Jugendstil german bronze sculpture of an athlete throwing a ball (shot put) by Julius Schmidt-Felling By: Julius Schmidt-Felling Materi...

French Empire patinated bronze sculpture of a group of boys and amphoras by Auguste Moreau By: Auguste Moreau Material: bronze, copper, metal Technique: patinated, cast, carved, pol...

Art Nouveau patinated bronze and ivory sculpture of a girl on a marble plinth by austrian author Ferdinand Lugerth By: Ferdinand Lugerth Material: bronze, ivory, marble, copper, met...

A spelter statue of Demeter and Persephone embracing it other with their tunics flowing in the wind. Signature “H Moreau” signed and foundry seal title statue “Protection” circa 1880...

Charles Gaston YRONDY (1885-?, France) : "Flamme of Freedom" Very dark brown-black varnished patinated bronze sculpture showing a hand holding a flamme Signed : "CH.YRONDI" on base...

Decorate a man's desk, an office or a study with this elegant antique bronze figure. Hand crafted in France circa 1880, and titled "Volontaire de 92" ( A Call to Arms of 1792 in English), the large sculpture stands...

Magnificent composition for this bronze sculpture with brown patina. Charity (such is the name of the work) is represented here in the form of a young woman breastfeeding infants. He...

Art deco athlete sculpture in patinated metal based on a plate of Belgian marble. Spear are made on bronze. Made in France Ca, 1930. Signed by J de R...

'Watching Something': patinated bronze sculpture of three children laughing and sitting on a bench by spanish artist Juan Clara By: Juan Clara Material: bronze, copper, metal Technique: cast, patinated, carved, pressed, metalwork Dimensions: 5.5 in x 12 in x 8 in Date: late 19th century, early 20th century Style: Romanticism, Naturalism, Realism, Belle Époque Place of origin: Spain This late 19th century bronze sculpture depicts three laughing children seated...

Sizeable crucifix with a finer quality carved corpus of Christ. Looking at Christ like this and thinking about the gruesome way in which He lost His earthly life, the crucifix (in our view) is a symbol of what 'telling people the truth' can lead to. 'The truth does not have many friends' is something I once read. Looking at what is going on in the world today, in most countries that still is the case. However, we feel that we (humans), nevertheless, are still becoming more loving, civilized, empathetic and self-conscious. Mind you, this good size wall crucifix dates from the early 1900s and the cruelties that people did to one another for acting or being different than 'normal' in those days, in most cases were far worse than what we see in this day and age. Looking at Christ on the cross with this in mind, we have come along way and we are slowly, but surely evolving in the right direction. Maybe it is just some of our 'leaders' who are lacking behind. Christ on the cross should therefor also be a reminder of someone who has lived and foreseen all this and who should therefor always be a beacon of hope and light when things are not going our way, yet. What attracted us most in this work of religious art are the quality details of His anatomy and the warm patina of this finely carved corpus. The facial features of this superb corpus of Christ reveal...

Superb bronze sculpture "Daydream in the Fields" by the sculptor Corneille Henri Theunissen (1863-1918) smelted by the Susse Frères foundry in France, 19th century. Beautiful repres...

Early 20th century patinated bronze sculpture of carrying man by belgian sculptor Victor Demanet and BL Paris By: Victor Demanet, BL Paris Material: bronze, copper, metal Technique:...

Place this tall patinated sculpture on a console or a buffet! Crafted in Belgium in 1932, the metal statue depicts a young boy eating his bowl of soup with dog watching with envy. The figurine has numerous marking to prove authentication. It is signed on the base by the artist "Rousseau". The sculpted figurine is in excellent condition commensurate with age and use, and adorns a rich patinated finish. Small dent on the dog's back (see last picture). Victor Rousseau (1865-1954) was a Belgian sculptor and medalist. Rousseau was of Walloon heritage and descended from a line of stonemasons. He began carving stone at age 11, working at the site of the Law Courts of Brussels, designed by architect Joseph Poelaert. He later apprenticed under sculptor Georges Houtstont, and took classes at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. A winning competition entry for the Prix Godecharle in 1890 gave Rousseau the chance to travel in England, Italy, and two full years in France, after which he returned to the atelier of Belgian sculptor and teacher Charles van der Stappen...

This vintage pair of patinated bronze Art Deco bookends date from the early 20th century. The sculptor Isidor Konti masterfully created this pair of partially nude muscular young men...

Sculpture named ONDINE (french: mermaid) Designed in France during the roaring 1920s by “Fayral”, which is one of the pseudonymes from “Pierre Le Faguays” (1892-1962). His good frie...

'Olimpia': Art Déco french spelter sculpture with stone base by Pierre Le Faguays (Fayral) for Max Le Verrier By: Pierre Le Faguays (Fayral), ...

Large (41 inch tall) patinated bronze sculpture of a fairy with sceptre standing upon a globe after the French sculptor, Michel Leonard Beguine (1855-1929).

A patinated bronze figurine of the roman goddess of the Hunt Diana by the great artist Edouard Drout. "Drouot" signed in hollow on the side and “Vrai Bronze Paris” foundry stamp und...

Excellent piece of Viennese Bronze Art around 1920 Cowboy in typical work clothes - shirt, baggy pants, bandana and cowboy hat - on bucking horse, holding...

Finest quality Orientalist subject patinated bronze sculpture of Judith after the German artist, Henry Weisse.

Patinated bronze sculpture of young boy trimming the wings of a dove by Gregoire. This bronze known as "Captivity" represents the clipping of wings and forceful fidelity. Beautifully...

Late 19th century french patinated bronze sculpture of violinist 'Sans Souci' with marble base by Léon Tharel for Susse Frères By: Léon Tharel, Susse Frères Material: bronze, metal, marble Technique: cast, patinated, hand-crafted, metalwork Dimensions: 6.5 in x 9 in x 9.5 in Date: late 19th century, circa 1890 Style: Belle Époque, Romanticism Place of origin: France Antique reclining...

Fine bronze by "New Sculpture" artist Charles Leonard Hartwell RA entitled " Call of the Sea". The bronze with excellent patination and on a marble base. Charles Leonard Hartwell studied at the South London Technical School of Art under William Silver Frith and then at the Royal Academy Schools from 1896. Hartwell also worked as an assistant to Edward Onslow Ford...

An antique French patinated bronze group of a classical woman seated on a chair and spinning thread. She has a basket of spun thread to her side. Holding a thread at her feet is the ...

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...

Hippolyte Moreau (1832-1927): "L'Aurore". Bronze proof with shaded red-brown patina. Signed. Sculpture turning on its base and bearing a small label: Aurore par H. Moreau (médaille d...

Art Déco patinated bronze sculpture of a girl and a jumping goat with marble base by Paul Silvestre for Susse Frères By: Paul Silvestre, Susse Frères Material: bronze, marble, coppe...

'Hoop Girl' Art Deco Bronze Sculpture Signed Ferdinand Preiss (1882-1943) Germany, Circa 1920's We are pleased to offer the 'Hoop Girl' Art Deco Bronze Sculpture, a signed work by...

An abstract inspired bronze tabletop statuette of a woman on black marble base. Exemplifying elegance, this modern abstract bronze statuette of a woman exudes a contemporary aestheti...

19th Century English Bronze of a Beloved Soldier of the H.A.C by Thomas Fowke/s Bronze Standing Figure of Captain John P. Field H.A.C (Honourable Artillery Company) By Thomas Fowke/...

A late 19th Century Belle Époque spelter statue and column of Queen of the Fields / Reine Des Pres, a young woman in a flowing dress with a wheat arrangement in her hand. Signed “Aug...

A Patinated Bronze Figural Group of ‘Gloria Victis’ (‘Glory to the Vanquished’), Cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne from the Model by Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié (French, 1845-1916). ‘Gloria Victis’ (‘Glory to the Vanquished’). Bronze, gilt and dark brown patina. Signed 'A. Mercié', with foundry inscription 'F. BARBEDIENNE, Fondeur. Paris.' and A. Collas reduction cachet. The integral base titled 'GLORIA VICTIS'. This cast is part of a limited edition by the Barbedienne Foundry. France. Circa 1880. ‘Gloria Victis’ is one of the most recognisable and important works of sculpture of the nineteenth century and a definitive image of France’s historic national identity. The figure of glory, winged and wearing armour, carries a dying young warrior heavenwards towards fame and immortality. The compositional daring of the group must be admired for balancing two figures on the minimal support of one foot, wings spread in the moment before taking flight. Mercié was a student at the French Academy of Rome when the Prussians invaded France in 1870. Shortly after the war had begun, he executed a group depicting the figure of Fame supporting a victorious soldier. When news reached Mercié in Rome that the French had surrendered, he decided to alter his group, replacing the victorious soldier with a defeated casualty, thus transforming an allegory of ‘Glory to the Victors’ into one of ‘Glory to the Vanquished’. Completed in 1872, a year after the defeat of French soldiers against the Prussian army, the statue personifies a defeated but heroic France. The title is also a reversal of the famous formula, ‘Vae Victis’ (Death to the Vanquished), which the Gallic general Brennus exclaimed upon defeating the Romans in 390 BC. The figure of the fallen soldier was thought to represent Henri Regnault, a fellow sculptor of Mercié who was killed on the last day of fighting. Measuring 317 cm. high the original group of ‘Gloria Victis’ was unveiled in plaster at the Salon of 1872. It was bought by the City of Paris for the sum of twelve thousand francs and then cast in bronze by Victor Thiébaut for eight thousand five hundred francs. The bronze was exhibited at the Salon in 1875 and first placed in Montholon Square in the 8th arrondissement. In 1884 it was transferred to the courtyard of the Hôtel de Ville and in 1930, it entered the collection of the Musée du Petit Palais, where it can be seen to this day. The Thiébaut Frères foundry also cast Gloria Victis bronzes for the cities of Niort (requested 1881) Bordeaux (requested 1883), Châlons-sur-Marne (today, Châlons-en-Champagne; requested 1890), and Cholet (requested 1901). In 1905, the Danish brewer and art collector Carl Jacobsen was permitted to have an exact cast made of the original sculpture in Paris, on condition that the base was made 2 cm lower and bore the inscription “Original tilhører Paris By” (The original belongs to the City of Paris). It too was cast by the Thiébaut Frères foundry. Gloria Victis was one of Jacobsen’s most important and his last acquisition. Today it has been returned to its original position in the Winter Garden at Glyptoteket, Copenhagen, Denmark. The full-size plaster was shown again at the Paris Expositon universelle of 1878 alongside a bronze reduction by Barbedienne. By this time Antonin Mercié had entered into a commercial edition contract with the Ferdinand Babedienne foundry to produce bronze reductions of Gloria Victis, his most famous work. Gloria Victis is first recorded to have been produced in three sizes and by 1886 Barbedienne’s ‘Catalogue des Bronzes D’Art’ lists six sizes measuring 3/5, 9/20, 7/20, 3/10, 6/25 and 2/10, of the original. These reductions were produced by an invention of Barbedienne’s business partner Achille Collas. The Collas reducing machine was a type of complex mechanical pantograph lathe that enabled sculpture to be mathematically measured and transcribed to scale, in the round, thus making a reduced size plaster from which a bronze could be cast. Mercié's modern sculpture had become an instant classic, even receiving an entry in the Nouveau Larousse Illustré. The success of the group undoubtedly lay in the fact that it was admired not just on an aesthetic level, but also on a patriotic level, particularly in its commemoration of heroism in defeat. Immediately ‘Gloria Victis’ was recognised as a national artwork, capable of arousing patriotism and casts were ordered from Barbedienne as local memorials commemorating the war’s dead for cities across France. ‘Gloria Victis’ was considered so much a part of France’s national identity that for the 1900 Paris Exhibition, Ferdinand Barbedienne’s nephew Gustave Leblanc, loaned a bronze example to feature as part of l’Exposition centennale de l’art français. Literature: For an interesting account of the process of creating a reduction in bronze of the Gloria Victis by Barbedienne and illustrations of the casting and finishing of the bronze see: 'Ferdinand Barbedienne': Theodore Child; Harper's new monthly magazine, Volume 73, Issue 436, September 1886. ‘Contemporary French Sculptors’: The Century, Volume 33, Issue 3, Jan 1887. ‘Modern French Sculpture’: Harper's new monthly magazine, Volume 76, Issue 452, January 1888. S, Lami, ‘Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'Ecole française au dix-neuvième siècle’, Tome III. G.-M., Paris, 1914, p. 432. Peter Fusco and H.W. Janson, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture from North...

Eurydice, one of the Nereids, is depicted in a bronze statue from the 19th century. Her long hair flows freely amidst a rocky landscape and she wears a conch shell as an earring. The...

Beautiful bronze sculpture with brown patina, depicting a man standing on the side of a rock, carrying a child on his shoulder. The bronze rests on a quadrangular red marble base and...

A most charming and true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated Bronze and Vert Patricia marble statues of cherubs. Each statue is raised by a circular base with a mottl...

A very rare Hoop Dancer and Falcon in bronze, marble base and head and hands in ivory, dressed with a headband with shiny stones. “Briand” signed (pseudonym of Marcel André Bouraine)...

Mid-century modern period figurative bronze sculpture by the Belgian artist, Firmin Vandewoude (1907-1994), depicting standing male beside nude female.

Early 20th century Art Déco small bronze sculpture of girl with skirt dancing By: unknown Material: bronze, copper, metal Technique: patinate...

Decorate an office or a study or an office with this elegant antique bronze woman figure. Hand crafted in France circa 1870, and titled "Le Fil de la Vierge" (The thread of the virgi...

A neoclassical Harvesting Girl Spelter statue by A.. J . Scotte (1885-1905) signed and dated ”1906” with foundry stamp mark on the base.

Art Deco bronze silver plated and black patinated sculpture "Leda and the Swan" created in 1925 by the celebrated French painter and sculptor Marcel A. Bouraine. This piece was showe...

Bronze Patinated Oxalis Decorative Object by Herma de Wit Limited Edition of 6 + 2 AP pieces. Dimensions: D 21 x W 21 x H 17 cm. Materials: Patinated bronze. Nature, a boundless so...

Standing figure of nude pan playing pipes. After the antique.

Art Deco bronze sculpture athlete with spear signed by Pierre Le Faguays. The sculpture has a rich green patina with shades of brown. France 1927. This bronze is illustrated on page...

Gaston Hauchecorne (1880-1945, France) : "Chinese dignitary" "3/4" body sculpture made of patinated terracota represnting a chinese dignitary hand clasped in a traditional chinese w...

Very decorative model of A Human Foot in Plaster, Italian Origin, good and warm patina of the Plaster, very decorative object to be used for different purposes

Jean Mich (1871-1932, Luxembourg) : "CHI-Fan" Patinated terracotta sculpture of a chinese cook bust marked on low left with chines ideograms SIgned : "J.Mich" Stamped twice with "...