Lot Essay
Couper exhibited the plaster model in Paris and London in 1885 and at Tiffany & Co. in New York in 1886.
Coming of Spring was described by a journalist writing for the Boston Transcript in 1884 as "a beautiful floating or flying figure, bearing a wreath of flowers. It has just been cast in plaster, and is for Tiffany of New York. The cutting in marble will take about two years. The exquisite nymph... is so delicate that one wonders if she touches the flowers and leaves over which she is being borne by a light zephyr."
The monumental marble is now in National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Virginia. The present one-half size reduction displays the virtuoso technique that exemplified Couper's work in Florence.
Coming of Spring was described by a journalist writing for the Boston Transcript in 1884 as "a beautiful floating or flying figure, bearing a wreath of flowers. It has just been cast in plaster, and is for Tiffany of New York. The cutting in marble will take about two years. The exquisite nymph... is so delicate that one wonders if she touches the flowers and leaves over which she is being borne by a light zephyr."
The monumental marble is now in National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Virginia. The present one-half size reduction displays the virtuoso technique that exemplified Couper's work in Florence.