A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF PSYCHE, cast from a model by Alfred Boucher, naked and with wings, seated on a rock, holding her wing with her right hand and touching the calf of her left leg with her left hand, on a rectangular pedestal base signed A. BOUCHER and inscribed by the foundry Susse F. Paris. Edt. and impressed COPYRIGHT BY SUSSE FRES 1896 JH., late 19th Century

A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF PSYCHE, cast from a model by Alfred Boucher, naked and with wings, seated on a rock, holding her wing with her right hand and touching the calf of her left leg with her left hand, on a rectangular pedestal base signed A. BOUCHER and inscribed by the foundry Susse F. Paris. Edt. and impressed COPYRIGHT BY SUSSE FRES 1896 JH., late 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF PSYCHE, cast from a model by Alfred Boucher, naked and with wings, seated on a rock, holding her wing with her right hand and touching the calf of her left leg with her left hand, on a rectangular pedestal base signed A. BOUCHER and inscribed by the foundry Susse F. Paris. Edt. and impressed COPYRIGHT BY SUSSE FRES 1896 JH., late 19th Century

7½in. (19cm.) wide; 17¾in. (45cm.) high; 5¼in. (13.5cm.) deep

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
H. Berman, Bronzes, Sculptors and Founders, Chicago, 1980, no 4391
P. Kjelleberg, Les Bronzes du XIX Siècle, Paris, 1987, pp 118-120

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Alfred Boucher (1850-1934) studied initially under Marius Ramus in Nogent-sur-Seine and then at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris under Dubois and Dumont. He exhibited at the Salon from 1874 onwards, winning a Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. He produced many portrait busts but also groups and figures. His work was characterised by a naturalism and sense of movement and many were cast in bronze.

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