Lot 39
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A French bronze study of a bull, entitled 'Taureau Romain'
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A French bronze study of a bull, entitled 'Taureau Romain'

CAST FROM A MODEL BY JEAN-BAPTISTE CLÉSINGER, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A French bronze study of a bull, entitled 'Taureau Romain'
Cast from a model by Jean-Baptiste Clésinger, Last quarter 19th Century
Signed J. CLESINGER. 1867, with Bronze Artistique de Paris foundry seal and inscribed to the front TORO ROMANO
24½ in. (62 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 11 in. (28 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

Modelled during his seven-year stay in Rome between 1857 and 1864, Taureau romain is among Jean-Baptiste Clésinger's most popular works. Writing in L'Artiste in 1859, the critic Armand Barthet, descibed it as follows: "Ce taureau est un miracle. Clésinger n'eut-il jamais fait autre chose, qu'il serait aujourd'hui, de par ce taureau seul, au premier rang des sculpteurs modernes."

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