Patinated Bronze Torchère with Classical Female Figure

French patinated bronze lamp modelled as a putto French, circa 1900 Measures: Height 61cm, diameter 18cm Formed as a putto holding a wooden lamp, this Belle Époque piece is as m...

This Belle Époque period orientalist lamp features a charming ensemble of elements. Most strikingly, a female figure in orientalising dress leans against a Moorish side table, upon w...

Standing over two and a half metres tall, this sculpture is truly exceptional—an unusual, and remarkable, statement piece. The sculpture features a standing female figure, her dress ...

Bronze sculptural lamp by Henry Étienne Dumaige French, 19th century Measures: Height 69cm, width 28cm, depth 23cm This fine figurative lamp is by Étienne Henry...

This very fine patinated bronze figural torchere modeled as a classically clad female musician holding a mandolin and a marble torch. This symbolic representation of Music, falls within Coutan’s allegorical work. We have a number of marble pedestals this Torchere would stand on. Inscribed on base: Coutan, Thiébaut Frères, Fondeurs. Jules-Félix Coutan (22 September 1848 – 23 February 1939) is considered to be one of the most gifted French sculptors and designers of the 19th and early 20th centuries Coutan studied under the renowned Pierre-Jules Cavelier at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1872; after his return to Paris he executed the fountain group France Bearing the Torch of Civilization for the Exposition Universelle (1889), one of the two prominent sculptural commissions for the Exposition grounds.[1] Later he taught at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1900, where he expressed his disdain for the researches of Rodin— fumiste—[2] and the Impressionist sculptors who followed him. Coutan was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1905.[3] Coutan is best known in the United States for the sculptural group above the entrance to Grand Central Terminal in New York City. For Grand Central Terminal, Coutan was contracted to provide a quarter-size scale plaster model of the three-figure allegorical Transportation group, which he developed from 1911 through 1914. The carving was performed by the William Bradley & Son of Long Island City.[4] Among Coutan's students were Hippolyte Lefèbvre, Raymond...

Neoclassical Lacquered Cast Iron Lamp, Science Allegory Women Torchere. First part of XX century. Total height: 65 cm

A most decorative and large scaled French turn of the century patinated Bronze electrified statue/lamp of Hebe. The stunning Hebe is standing on an elevated platform and wearing clas...

Classic Woman Sculpture Lamp by Val D' Osne Bronze sculpture lamp from the late 19th century, which represents a woman in Greco-Roman period costumes, carrying light in her hand with...