ALBERT ERNEST CARRIER-BELLEUSE (French, 1824-1887)

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ALBERT ERNEST CARRIER-BELLEUSE (French, 1824-1887)

'Diane Victorieuse', A Bronze Figure of the Huntress

inscribed 'A CARRIER BELLEUSE' and impressed with the bronze guaranti seal
26¼in. (66.7cm.) high, on Brescian marble socle with separate bronze tag inscribed 'DIANE VICTORIEUSE CARRIER BELLEUSE', rich reddish brown patina

出版

J.E. Hargrove, The Life and Work of Albert Carrier Belleuse, pp. 60-61, pl. 21 for a marble example
H.W. Jansen & Peter Fusco, Romantics to Rodin, New York, 1980, pp. 170-171, cat. nos. 55-56 for a marble and a terracotta example

展覽

Wellesley, Massachusetts, Wellesley College Museum, Diana in Late Nineteenth-Century Sculpture: A Theme in Variations, November 3-December 31, 1989, cat. no. 11, illus. This exhibition travelled to Oberlin, Ohio, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, February 7-March 25, 1990; South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, April 8-June 3, 1990.

拍品專文

First exhibited in plaster at the Salon of 1885, the statuette of Diane Victorieuse was the artist's final triumph. Responding to public demand for table-top figurines, the ailing Carrier-Belleuse devoted himself to the conception of this model. His attention to lavish detail and to contrast of texture celebrated the huntress' sensuous femininity in a manner that also emphasized the fabled independance of the goddess.

Aware that Diane Victorieuse was to be the successful culmination to a long career, Carrier-Belleuse arranged before his death for the marble statuette to be exhibited alongside his earlier Bacchante (1863) in the Salon of 1887.