Porteur d'eau Tunisien

Details

CAST BY PINEDO FROM A MODEL BY JEAN DIDIER DEBUT (1824-1893)
Porteur d'eau Tunisien
The upper and lower body cast in two separate loose sections, on a seperately cast naturalistic base inscribed D. Debut, stamped bronze garanti au titre PARIS, stamped with a monogram and with an H, mounted on a plinth with a brass plaque inscribed PORTEUR d'EAU TUNISIEN PAR BEDUT 1er PRIX DE RÔME and inscribed to the back Pinédo bronzier Paris
brown and red-brown patinated bronze
92 cm. high

Special notice

Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

Début exhibited at the Salon from 1848 onwards till his death in 1893 and in 1851 won the second prix de Rome in 1851.

A smaller example of the present lot is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 266.

More from The Sculpture Sale

View All