Live Auction 6035Nineteenth Century Furniture & WoA
A French gilt bronze bronze figure entitled 'Bathsebee'
Lot 90

A French gilt bronze bronze figure entitled 'Bathsebee'

CAST FROM A MODEL BY JEAN-LEON GEROME, CIRCA 1900

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A French gilt bronze bronze figure entitled 'Bathsebee'
Cast from a model by Jean-Leon Gerome, Circa 1900
The naked woman bathing, sponging her shoulder, an urn at her feet, on a circular base inscribed J. L. GEROME, with foundry inscription Siot/Paris and numbered P117, on an octagonal green onyx plinth
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high, overall

Specialist note

The present work, Bathsebée was adapted from Gérôme's lost painting of the same title of 1889. The sculpture, first exhibited in 1896, was edited by Siot in two sizes, the present cast being an example of the smaller.