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Lot Essay
Les bas-reliefs en bronze doré représentant les profils d'une bacchante et d'un faune bachique peuvent être rapprochés de deux bas-reliefs similaires en bronze doré ornant une armoire de la fin du XVIIe siècle en marqueterie Boulle aujourd'hui conservée à la Wallace collection de Londres (loc. cit.). Cette armoire provient de la vente Albert (Paris le 28-30 janvier 1861, lot 146) et fut acquise par le 4e marquis de Hertford. Peter Hughes mentionne dans sa description de l'armoire des « têtes bachiques sur les panneaux centraux des portes » puis plus loin « sur la porte gauche le profil droit d'une tête bachique masculine riant, et sur la porte droite, le profil gauche d'une bacchante riant. L'un couronné de lierre, l'autre de lys » (op. cit., p. 810). Les parties latérales de l'armoire sont également ornées des personnifications de saisons accompagnant les figures des panneaux centraux : à gauche l'Automne (Bacchus) et à droite l'Été (Cérès).
The present gilt-bronze-mounted panels depicting the profile of a faun and a bacchante can be compared to two very similar gilt-bronze panels adorning a Boulle marquetry armoire that was acquired by the 4th Marquess of Hertford from the Albert sale (28-30 January 1861, lot 146) and is today housed in the Wallace Collection, London (loc. cit.). In his description of the armoire Peter Hughes mentions Bacchic heads on the central panels of the doors and again 'on the left door with a laughing male bacchant head in profile facing right hand, on the right door, with a laughing female bacchante head in profile facing left. The male head is entwined with ivy, the female with lilies' (op. cit., p. 810). The sides of the armoire are also adorned with gilt-bronze personifications of seasons that also relate to the figures in the central panels: on the left side Autumn (Bacchus) and on the right side Summer (Ceres).
The present gilt-bronze-mounted panels depicting the profile of a faun and a bacchante can be compared to two very similar gilt-bronze panels adorning a Boulle marquetry armoire that was acquired by the 4th Marquess of Hertford from the Albert sale (28-30 January 1861, lot 146) and is today housed in the Wallace Collection, London (loc. cit.). In his description of the armoire Peter Hughes mentions Bacchic heads on the central panels of the doors and again 'on the left door with a laughing male bacchant head in profile facing right hand, on the right door, with a laughing female bacchante head in profile facing left. The male head is entwined with ivy, the female with lilies' (op. cit., p. 810). The sides of the armoire are also adorned with gilt-bronze personifications of seasons that also relate to the figures in the central panels: on the left side Autumn (Bacchus) and on the right side Summer (Ceres).