White Carrara marble. H. with pedestal: 59 cm. (23 ¼ in.); L. 31 cm. (12 ¼ in.); W. 28 cm. (11 in.). SIGNED AND DATED: THEODORE TRONCHIN/PAR J. B. BOUDARD A PARME 1765, engraved on the reverse side of the bust. INSCRIPTION: ASCLEPIO REDIVIVO [Asclepius resurrected], visible in black capital letters on the ribbon crowning… Continue reading BUST À L’ANTIQUE OF DOCTOR TRONCHIN
Bronze with brownish-black patina; marble (piedouches). Bustes: H. 44 cm. (17 ¼ in.); W. 33 cm. (12 ½ in.). Piedouches: H. 13 cm. (5 in.); Total H. : 57 cm. (22 ½ in.). PROVENANCE: collection of Louis-Antoine Crozat (1699-1770), Baron de Thiers, in his private mansion on the Place Vendôme, the Hôtel d’Evreux, n°. 19;… Continue reading BUSTS IN THE ANTIQUE MANNER OF THE VENUS DE MEDICI & OF A FAUN
Executed for Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1748) to be transposed into stone and adorn the pediment of the Great Door, the main entrance in the middle of the ‘east’ façade of his residence at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Terracotta. Ogee bases with moulded and tinted wood; one of them bears an old and… Continue reading NEPTUNE AND BRITANNIA
Bases sculpted in bianco e nero antico. Alabastro fiorito and gilt bronze. Flora or Spring Allegory: H. 55.5 cm (22 in.). Total H. including the base: 62 cm (24 ½ in.). Ceres or Summer Allegory: H. 54 cm (21 ¼ in.). Total H. including the base: 60.5 cm (24 in.). Bacchus or Autumn Allegory: H. 53.5 cm (21… Continue reading SET OF FOUR ONYX AND GILT BRONZE STATUES SYMBOLISING THE FOUR SEASONS
White marble. H. 60 cm. (23 ½ in.); W. 56 cm. (22 in.). PROVENANCE: private collection.
White marble. H. 58 cm. (23 in.); W. 54 cm. (21 ¼ in.). PROVENANCE: private collection.
Carved boxwood or walnut. H. 32 cm (12 5/8 in.); W. 22.4 cm (8 7/8 in.). PROVENANCE: private collection.
Paragone di Fiandra (bust); Rosso di Malcesine and white marbre (drape); Lumachella nera (base) H. 78 cm. (30 ¾ in.). PROVENANCE: private collection. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Sylvia Pressouyre, Nicolas Cordier – recherches sur la sculpture à Rome autour de 1600, Rome, Ecole française, 1984, p. 413-415, cat. 21, ill. 190-198 ; Christian Theuerkauff, “Anmerkungen zu Melchior Barthel,” Zeitschrift des… Continue reading BUST OF A BLACK WOMAN
Bronze with a brown patina. Ebonized wood base adorned with chiselled and gilded bronze trophieswith the arms of France and Navarre, each presenting in its centera medallion with a profile portrait of Louis XIV. H. 44 cm. (17 ½ in.); Total H. with the base 71 cm. (28 in.). PROVENANCE: collection of Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) ;… Continue reading EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF LOUIS XIV
“Beauty is not the preserve of a privileged race, I have put forward the idea of ubiquity in the artistic world” extract from a speech given in 1862 by Charles Cordier to the Anthropological Society. Chef-modèle in bronze with brown patina. Total H. with the piedouche: 48 cm. (19 in.)H. of the circular and moulded… Continue reading «ARABE OF EL AGHOUAT, SYRIAN-ARAB FAMILY»
