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A TERRACOTTA GROUP OF AN INFANT GIRL AND LION
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A TERRACOTTA GROUP OF AN INFANT GIRL AND LION

CIRCLE OF LAURENT DELVAUX (1696-1778), 18TH CENTURY

Details
A TERRACOTTA GROUP OF AN INFANT GIRL AND LION
CIRCLE OF LAURENT DELVAUX (1696-1778), 18TH CENTURY
On an integral rectangular plinth.
Some restoration; losses.
105/8 in. (27 cm.) high
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
A. Jacobs, Laurent Delvaux, Paris, 1999, pp. 389-90, nos. S175 and S176.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

This terracotta may have been a modello for another version probably in marble. Decorative groups of this type were extremely popular within the circle of Delvaux as well as contemporary French sculptors. A comparable terracotta example, Summer and Autumn, depicts a child with very similar proportions and appears to be a modello for a marble version signed by Delvaux in 1760 (see Jacobs, loc. cit).

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