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A French white marble group, on a patinated-bronze-mounted Sienna, Jaune de Valence and grey-veined white marble pedestal

BY EDOUARD LANTERI, LONDON, DATED 1891

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A French white marble group, on a patinated-bronze-mounted Sienna, Jaune de Valence and grey-veined white marble pedestal
By Edouard Lanteri, London, Dated 1891
Representing two ladies in classical robes, reading a book, seated on a 'D'-shaped chair with an Anthemion frieze, on paw front feet, on a 'D'-front shaped base inscribed ED.LANTERI.SC 1891 to the right side, on a stepped spreading base, above a stepped platform, the frieze with a plaque depicting three portrait medallions of Wagner, Beethoven and Handel, above a fielded panel, on a stepped spreading base
The group with the Sienna base: 31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 27¼ in. (69 cm) wide; 21½ in. (55 cm.) deep;
The pedestal: 47 in. (120 cm.) high; 32¼ in. (81.5 cm.) wide; 26¼ in. (67 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Born in Burgundy in 1848, Edouard Lanteri (d.1918) studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris before emigrating to London in 1872. He joined the staff of the Royal College of Art in 1874 and was professor of sculpture from 1880 to 1910. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1876 and specialised in portrait busts, statuettes and genre groups.

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