JEAN BAPTISTE CLESIGNER (French, 1814-1883)

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JEAN BAPTISTE CLESIGNER (French, 1814-1883)

'Femme piquée par un serpent', A Bronze Figure

inscribed 'AJ. CLESINGER' and 'F. BARBEDIENNE. FONDEUR' and impressed with the Collas reduction seal
22½in. (52cm.) long, on separate verde antico marble base, rich brown patina

出版

H.W. Janson & P. Fusco, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture, Los Angeles, 1980, pp. 175-176, cat. no 58 for another example
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, La Sculpture Française au XIXe Siecle, Paris, 1986, pp. 337-338, cat no. 212, illus. for the marble

拍品專文

The present bronze is a slight variation of a portrait of the artist's ex-model and ex-mistress, Apollonie Sabateir. Originally commissioned as a plaster by her current lover, the Parisian financier and newspaper owner Alfred Mosselman, the model was reworked in marble and exhibited at the Salon of 1847. The sculpture created a sensation because of its uninhibited posture and attitude and Carpeaux capitalized on the scandal by editing a reduction of the model in bronze.