Sold by order of the Trustees of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to benefit Acquisitions Funds (Lots 360-361)

A PAIR OF FRENCH PLASTER NYMPHS

19TH CENTURY, IN THE STYLE OF FALCONET

Details

A PAIR OF FRENCH PLASTER NYMPHS
19th century, In the style of Falconet
Each scantily clad female figure holds a cornucopia cast with foliage and fluting, above an integral pedestal base
Approximately 51in. (129cm.) high (2)

Provenance

With Wildenstein
Mr. and Mrs. E.T. Stokesbury, Whitemarsh House

Lot Essay

A related set of four marble nymphs were sold in the Mentmore sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 18 May 1977, lot 243. They are illustrated in an archival photograph of the dining room at Mentmore in P. Prevost-Marcilhacy, Les Rothschild bâtisseurs et mécènes, Paris, 1995, p. 116.