JEAN BAPTISTE CLESINGER (French, 1814-1883)

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JEAN BAPTISTE CLESINGER (French, 1814-1883)

'Mlle. Rachel, dans le rôle de Phèdre', A White Marble Bust

signed 'J. CLESINGER'
35½in. (90.2cm.) high, including marble socle

出版

A. Estignard, Clesinger, sa vie, ses oeuvres, Paris, 1900
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de L'école française au dix-neuvième siècle, Paris, 1916, 1970 reprint, pp. 395, 399

拍品專文

Clesinger exhibited a pair of marble busts in the Salon of 1850 of the actress Mademoiselle Rachel. One bust was as her tragic role as Phèdre (no. 3258) and the other in her popular comic role in the play Le Moineau de Lesbie (no. 3259). In 1852, the Minister of the Interior commissioned a statue of 'La Tragedie' which was to be based on her Phedre. This full figure was placed at the top of the staircase in the Theatre de l'Odeon, Paris.