Live Auction 8048The Opulent Eye - 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe
A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'ETUDE ET MEDITATION'
Lot 96

A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'ETUDE ET MEDITATION'

CAST BY FERDINAND BARBEDIENNE FROM THE MODEL BY PAUL DUBOIS, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed15 March 2012

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GBP 12,500

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'ETUDE ET MEDITATION'
CAST BY FERDINAND BARBEDIENNE FROM THE MODEL BY PAUL DUBOIS, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Signed 'P. DUBOIS', with foundry inscription 'F. BARBEDIENNE, Fondeur, Paris', numbered 505 and with Reduction Mecanique cachet
37 in. (94 cm.) high

Specialist note

Étude et Méditation is one of four groups representing the virtues modeled by Paul Debois (d. 1905) for the tomb of General Lamoricière at Nantes cathedral completed in 1879. The fondeur Barbedienne edited Étude et Méditation in five sizes and the present 95 cm. high cast is an example of the largest offered: priced at 2000 fr. in their 1886 catalogue.