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D'APRÈS LE MODÈLE DE MICHEL ANGUIER (1612-1686)
The item was sold for 18 200 €
Fees include commission and taxes.
D'APRÈS LE MODÈLE DE MICHEL ANGUIER (1612-1686)
Amphitrite
Bronze statuette with brown patina
Second half of the 18th century
H: 37 - W base: 12 - D: 9,7 cm
Wear to the patina
AFTER THE MODEL OF PIERRE GRANIER (1635-1715)
Bacchus
Bronze statuette with brown patina
Second half of the 18th century
H: 36,2 - W base: 13 - D: 10,2 cm
Wear to the patina
BIBLIOGRAPHY Cat exhibition: The French Bronze. 1500 to 1800, New
York, Knoedler gallery, 1968, n°19a and 19b, for similar models.
Expert:
Albéric Froissart albe.froissart@gmail.com
Following the fashion of the powerful, the taste for bronzes found a significant development in the first half of the 18th century. This pair of mythological statuettes, particularly significant of this craze and proposed by the Mercier merchants to a discerning clientele, was cast by means of sand casting, the usual process of the Parisian workshops that mastered this technique for furniture bronzes before extending it to the realization of more ambitious groups such as those presented here.
MOA2021
Amphitrite
Bronze statuette with brown patina
Second half of the 18th century
H: 37 - W base: 12 - D: 9,7 cm
Wear to the patina
AFTER THE MODEL OF PIERRE GRANIER (1635-1715)
Bacchus
Bronze statuette with brown patina
Second half of the 18th century
H: 36,2 - W base: 13 - D: 10,2 cm
Wear to the patina
BIBLIOGRAPHY Cat exhibition: The French Bronze. 1500 to 1800, New
York, Knoedler gallery, 1968, n°19a and 19b, for similar models.
Expert:
Albéric Froissart albe.froissart@gmail.com
Following the fashion of the powerful, the taste for bronzes found a significant development in the first half of the 18th century. This pair of mythological statuettes, particularly significant of this craze and proposed by the Mercier merchants to a discerning clientele, was cast by means of sand casting, the usual process of the Parisian workshops that mastered this technique for furniture bronzes before extending it to the realization of more ambitious groups such as those presented here.
MOA2021