Art Nouveau Sculptures

French Art Nouveau gilt bronze of a mermaid holding a shell. Possibly used as a card tr fonay. Fine detail and casting. Stamped for Louchet, Phearis foundry on the back of the base.

This wonderful, whimsical, and naughty bronze by the Bergman Foundry is a real joy. Highly detailed casting and meticulously painted bronze has the added feature of a toy, you can p...

Small Majolica white swan jardinière signed Jerome Massier Vallauris, circa 1890.

A stunning antique early 20th-century Austrian Art Nouveau bronze portrait figurine / sculpture depicting the renowned golfer Harry Vardon, titled "Joueur au Golf". This piece is dat...

"Taureau Debout" by Rosa Bonheur. An excellent late 19th Century French animalier bronze study of a standing bull with fine hand chased surface that accentuates the muscle definition of the subject, signed Rosa B. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Measures: Width: 32 cm Height: 18 cm Depth: 11cm Condition: Excellent Original Condition Circa: 1870 Materials: Bronze Book reference: Animals in Bronze by Christopher Payne Page no. 174 DESCRIPTION Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) The most popular artist of nineteenth-century France, Rosa Bonheur was also one of the first renowned painters of animals and the first woman awarded the Grand Cross by the French Legion of Honor. A professional artist with a successful career, Bonheur lived in two consecutive committed relationships with women. Born on March 16, 1822 in Bordeaux, Marie Rosalie Bonheur was the oldest of the four children of Raimond Oscar Bonheur (1796-1849) and Sophie Marquis. Bonheur's father was an art teacher who came from a poor family, while her mother, a musician, had descended from a middle-class family and had been her husband's art student. Bonheur's father, who taught drawing and landscape painting, was an ardent member of the utopian Saint Simeon society. The group held idealistic beliefs about the reform of work, property, marriage, and the role of women in society. Most importantly, for the artist's future, the Saint Simeons questioned traditional gender norms and firmly believed in the equality of women. While teaching artistic techniques to his oldest daughter, Raimond Bonheur also encouraged her independence and taught her to consider art as a career. In 1828 Raimond Bonheur joined the Saint Simeons at their retreat outside Paris. Sophie and the children joined him in Paris the following year. Four years later, however, Raimond abandoned his family to live in isolation with his fellow Saint Simeons. Sophie Bonheur died in 1833 at the age of thirty-six. Rosa was only eleven years old when her mother died, but she was aware of the heavy price her mother paid for married life with a man who was more dedicated to his own ideals than to meeting his family's needs. Rosa also saw that her mother's marriage led to poverty and her death from exhaustion. After her mother's death, Bonheur was taken in by the Micas family who resided nearby. Mme Micas and Bonheur's mother had been friends. When Mme Bonheur died, the Micas family paid Raimond Bonheur's debts and cared for Rosa. Their daughther, Nathalie, who would later become an amateur inventor and unschooled veterinarian, and Rosa became enamored with each other. When Rosa Bonheur began her career as a professional artist, she had already been trained by her father who had allowed her to study in all male classes. Rosa also learned by sketching masterworks at the Louvre from the age of fourteen, and later, by studying with Léon Cogniet. From the very beginning, Bonheur's favorite subject was animals. She learned their anatomy completely by dissecting them in local slaughterhouses. She also visited the horse market two times a week. Study of animals by direct observation led to the formation of the realist style in which Bonheur worked. It was for such work that Bonheur obtained written permission from the French government to wear men's slacks. Her working attire also consisted of a loose smock and heavy boots that protected her feet from the dangerous environment in which she painted. The style of dress that the artist adopted for work and home may well have been influenced by her father's attire, which was based on St. Simeonian clothing experiments. Bonheur also cropped her hair, perhaps to facilitate her work. She did, however, always wear dresses for social occasions because she knew that appropriate dress would further her career. Bonheur earned a successful living as a painter of animals. She exhibited at the annual Paris Salon regularly from the age of nineteen in 1841 through 1853, when she was thirty-one. She won the salon's gold medal at the age of twenty-six in 1848 and was commissioned by the French government to paint Plowing on the Nivernais in 1849. In the same year Bonheur and her sister Juliette became directors of l'École gratuite de dessin pour les jeunes filles, a post their father had once held. Bonheur completed her most renowned work, The Horse Fair, in 1855. The successful representation of percherons (a breed native to Normandy) was purchased by Ernest Gambart, a London art dealer whose gallery specialized in work by French artists. He exhibited The Horse Fair in London where Bonheur visited with Nathalie. Queen Victoria requested a private viewing of the painting at Windsor Castle. It would later be purchased in 1887 by Cornelius Vanderbilt and donated to the new Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur's trip to England allowed her to meet Charles Eastlake, then President of the Royal Academy, John Ruskin, the English writer and critic, and Edwin Landseer, the British animalier. She also toured the English and Scottish countrysides and executed some paintings based on her observations of new breeds of animals found there. Gambart made engravings of Bonheur's work, including The Horse Fair, and sold them in England, Europe, and the United States. Bonheur became one of the most renowned painters of the time. Little girls, such as Anna Klumpke in the United States, even had dolls in her likeness, much as American girls played with Shirley Temple dolls...

Sculpture created by the renowned Austrian sculptor Carl Kauba in the early 1900s, depicting a female figure in bronze with articulated arms that can delicately reveal or conceal her...

Wonderful late 19th Century Art Nouveau French bronze figure of a seductively draped female figure representing, in allegorical form, Nature revealing her secrets to Science, a fitti...

Wonderful perfectly preserved owl sculpture on a pedestal, made of white porcelain, partly gilded, handmade in the world famous German porcelain manufactory Hutschenreuther. The pol...

Beautiful pink pig figural catchall. Made of Porcelain. A beautiful decorative piece of art for any room.

Pierrot under the Moon sculpture, France, ca.1900. Polychrome plaster and mirror. Pierrot sits on a stone balustrade and plays the mandolin under the moon. The moon is represented b...

Elegant and rare Majolica stork with a bamboo vase signed Delphin Massier, circa 1890. The Massier are known for the quality of their unique enamels an...

Erotic / nude women bronze sculpture table bell push - Austria 1900´s Talk about hard to find items! This impossible to believe bell push is the only erotic bell push we have ever se...

Genuine tall alabaster sculpture by Guglielmo PUGI (1858-1941), Florence, Italy, 1880s. Young girl with tambourine, perhaps a gypsy. On its base. Direct carving. With base - Height...

A young woman in a long dress with short sleeves, softly enveloping her body, with a scarf covering her hair and falling well over her face to protect her from the burning sun, walking across the field at a leisurely pace, holding out her apron with the seeds spread out in front of her with her left hand and making a sweeping gesture with her right. On a narrow, elongated natural plinth with rounded corners, with the artist's signature ‘Schork 99’ incised on the side, as well as the Goldscheider manufactory's pressed stamp, pressed model number and incised monogram ‘AH’ on the back behind the figure. This motif is particularly well known in France, where it adorned all French franc coins and postage stamps for many years and was continued in a stylised form on all cent coins of the euro after 2001. Louis Oscar Roty (1846 - 1911) This sower is very familiar to the French: she was depicted on the fifty-centime coin and on the one-, two- and five-franc coins until 2001, when a stylised version of her appeared on the ten-, twenty- and fifty-centime coins of the euro. The figure dates back to 1887, when Roty designed a prize medal for the Ministry of Agriculture, a project that was not pursued. When the Minister of Finance commissioned new coins in 1896, Roty was among the selected artists. He drew on the Sower of 1887, but transformed his robust farmer into a slender Marianne, who wore the Phrygian cap of freedom. The traditional profile of the Republic was abandoned in favour of a more active, standing figure. This effigy was criticised, but generally very well received: ‘The seeds she generously throws into the earth are the countless ideas that may one day germinate and flourish when we are no longer here’ (La Liberté, 8 October 1898). The gesture is more symbolic than realistic – we do not sow against the wind, which nevertheless makes the hair behind the sower flutter – but it makes the composition more dynamic. Originally, ‘The Sower’ was used on the fifty-centime to two-franc coins introduced in 1897 and 1898, before appearing on postage stamps in 1903. It is thus the most widely circulated work of art in France. Although not included in the Musée d'Orsay's medal collection, this wax drawing on slate, typical of the technique of a medallist, is one of the most beautiful pieces and demonstrates the virtuosity of Roty. (Musée d'Orsay, The Collections) Design by HANS SCHORK...

This whimsical and sexy bronze (titled Treasure Seeker) was done by the noted Austrian Sculptor of many unusual and sexy and erotic bronzes, Carl Kauba. Signed on the base, and hav...

A charming antique Viennese bronze sculpture of a young Dutch boy pulling in a fishing net by Peter Tereszczuk dating from circa 1910. The f...

This erotic nude statue in the style of Art Nouveau sculpture depicts a kneeling nude woman adjusting a delicate necklace, combining sensuality and introspective grace in fluid, natu...

Friedrich Goldscheider (1845 - 1897). Bust of Moor. Polychrome terracotta. Marked reserved and numbered reproduction. circa 1890.  

Majolica white swan jardiniere signed Jerome Massier Fils Vallauris, circa 1910.

A striking and highly decorative ceramic sculptural lidded urn estimated to be from the 1900s, possibly originating from the renowned Søholm ceramic factory during its Skønvirke peri...

Stunning alabaster statue depicting a maiden selling flowers in the style of Ada Cipriani. Late 19th-early 20th Century - France No visible signature 16" W x 14" D x 49.5" H

Old statue of a roaring tiger, after an antique example, this statue has a bronze patina and is made of plaster, art deco period, first half of the 20th ce...

This beautiful young woman is a fine example of the creations of the noted French sculptor, Emmanuel Villanis (1858-1914). You will find his works to be predominantly art nouveau wo...

A powerful hand-cast solid bronze lion mounted on a sculpted oak panel. European work around 1900–1930 with a beautiful natural patina, strong relief and classic lion passant heraldi...

Handcarved, endearing and remarkable Classical Realism / Figurative work of art, weighing 23.15 pounds. A tender and exquisitely hand-carved alabaster sculpture by Italian artist Da...

Classic early 1910s Vienna bronze figurine. This polychromed cold painted bronze is probably something you need if you’re a Vienna bronze collector. Found at an estate sale in Vienna...

This exquisite bronze figurine from the early 1900s, by renowned French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet, depicts a seated cat with exceptional elegance and realism. The sculpture captures ...

Rare French bronze sculpture by Henri Désiré GAUQUIE (1858-1927), France, ca.1910. The sower. Height : 18.25"(46.4cm), Width : 7.9"(20cm), Depth : 8.1"(20.5cm). A sharp line, an indi...

"Confidence". calamine. France, around 1900, following Grisard, Désiré (1872-¿). With manufacturing stamp, titled and engraved name. Calamine figure patinated in various shades t...

Aqua Turquoise Majolica Turtle Clement Massier, circa 1890.

We are art nouveau lovers as one might be able to see looking at our inventory. Lamps are always at the top of our "want list". We found a beauty here. She is gracefully standing in a leafy plant base as she holds ups a stem with leaves. The quality casting and rich warm patina all are present. The artist Jean Baptiste Germain...

"Chinoise” Sculpture by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. This sculpture, a self portrait which stylistically mixes Art Nouveau and orientalism, is among her earliest successes. This piec...

Art Nouveau orientalist sculpture by Emmanuel Villanis (1858–1914), depicting a young slave girl seated on a stone bench, her hands shackled behind her back. The figure wears delicat...

Luxury at its finest, high-end glass orange brown dragon by Daum, France. This beautiful sculpture of an orange and brown dragon is made out of art glass. Founded in 1878 in Nancy,...

Pair of Glazed Ceramic Flower Vases by Delphine Massier, France, circa 1890.

A stunning French Art Nouveau pair of large vases with female figures of the era, signed by the Parisian Sculptor F. Citti, Paris 1900-1910. Measures: Height 19 in (48 cm) Width...

Erotic bronze sculpture. Austria, early 20th century.

This stunning Art Nouveau sculpture is a large-scale painted plaster figure of a partially draped female nude adorned with flowers and flowing drapery. Sculpted with remarkable grace...

Elegant curved, artist-signed abstract bird sculptures. Signed "Ogden 82". Figure #1: 15"W x 3.13"D x 19"H Figure #2: 19"W x 4.25"D x 18.5"H Attributed to Samuel (Sam) Ogden (192...

Cat figure made of Viennese bronze by Franz Bergman This figure is by artist Franz Bergman that represents a cat armed with a rifle with a red bag of ammunition. It is a cold painte...

Enrico Mazzolani ceramic female figure, Italy, 1930s.

WMF, superb Art Nouveau desk inkwell. Wonderful work. Maker mark for WMF. Model 288. The Lady is the Law. Similar to the justice sculpture See Photos...

Bronze Alloy sculpture "Fée Aux Fleurs", Signed L. Moreau, France, Late 19th Century.

A beautiful and substantial Nautical, cast metal, antique doorstop with original patina finish. Depicting a mythological grotto dolphin style sea ser...

This wonderful life-like sculpture depicts a Koran scriber, who, bending his legs under him, holds sheets of paper in his hands, on which he transcribes verses from the Koran lying i...

Large beautiful figurative sculpture by Danish artist Jens Jacob Bregnø in jugend style. The sculpture is made of raw sandstone and is signed by the ...

A scarce large Doulton Lambeth early Art Deco figure of a Dutch Woman designed by renowned designer and modeler Leslie A Harradine and dating from around 1914. The figure modeled in ...

René Saint-Marceaux (1845 - 1915 France), antique gilded French bronze bust. Inscribed "E.Polo" and dated 1897. This small gilded bronze is a bust of a child signed D. St. Rene. Mark...

Terracotta woman bust signed Goldscheider, Austria, circa 1900. Friedrich Goldscheider (1845-1897).

Breathtaking porcelain peacock by Nymphenburg, the sculptor Theodor Ka¨rner created in 1906. This model was is signed and dated by the artist in 1912. This piece is also marked with ...

Vintage Royal Haeger "Mother and Child" Ceramic Statue Sculpture - Pale Pink. Circa Late 20th Century. Measurements: 11.5" H x 14" W x 5.5" D.

Beautifull Lalique Crystal Female Figurative Sculpture A French Lalique crystal female figurative sculpture piece, circa 1970's, France. A nude crystal female figure sculpture on bl...

A beautiful pair of monumental biscuit porcelain figures made by renowned Royal Dux Bohemia, depicting a girl and boy, each one at a well. Stamped with the pink, triangular Royal Du...

A stunning French Art Nouveau pair of large vases with female figures of the era, circa 1910.

The girl in a white dress and with a blue bow in her long hair bends over the wicker doll's pram and places the doll into the deep pillow. Modeling and painting of the finest quality...

A classic very decorative bronze statue by an unknown Maker depicting Emperor Wilhelm II. from Prussia Germany. Born January 1859 in Berlin; † 4. Juni 1941 in Doorn, Netherlands - he...

Beautiful alabaster bust of an elegant woman with a hat and a ribbon in her hair; the base is decorated with flowers/leaves This bust is signed on the back Ant Nelson: this is the p...

Beautiful Art Nouveau bronzed colored plaster bust. Bust with lots of patina, damages, as found condition, this adds lots of character to the item. A nice addition in every living ro...

Fix-Masseau set up his workshop in Paris where he attracted the admiration of Rodin. The latter was unable to convince him to join his studio. The quality of his sculptures was notic...

French Antique Bust of a Young Girl in Plaster A pretty polychrome plaster bust of a young girl wearing a headscarf with her eyes cast downwards. The piece features carvings of b...