Jean Jacques Pradier (French, 1790-1852)

细节

Jean Jacques Pradier (French, 1790-1852)

'Phryne', A Bronze Female Figure

inscribed 'PRADIER' and 'Susse. Edts.'
16½in. (42cm.) high, brown patina

出版

H.W. Janson and P. Fusco, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue), 1980, pp. 319-320, no. 181
P. Lapaire and J.R. Gaborit, Statues de Chair: Sculptures de James Pradier, Geneva, 1985, pp. 137-140, cat. no. 10

拍品专文

The present bronze is a reduction of the marble original which was exhibited in the Salon of 1845. The unusual subject is based on a Roman story of an Athenian courtesan who, when brought before a tribunal accused of impiety, was acquited on the basis of her extraordinary beauty.