Lot Essay
Bacchante et l'amour relates to a painting of the same subject completed by the artist in 1868. Reductions of the bronze were cast in three sizes by the Siot foundry.
Details
Jean Leon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904)
'Bacchante et l'amour', A Parcel-Gilt Bronze Group of a Bacchante and Infant
inscribed 'J.L. GÉROME', stamped 'G426' and with the Siot-Decauville foundry seal
13½in. (34.2cm.) high, on a seperate onyx base
'Bacchante et l'amour', A Parcel-Gilt Bronze Group of a Bacchante and Infant
inscribed 'J.L. GÉROME', stamped 'G426' and with the Siot-Decauville foundry seal
13½in. (34.2cm.) high, on a seperate onyx base
Literature
Musèe de Vesoul, J. L. Gerome, (exhibition catalogue), August 1981, cat. no. 190, illus.
G. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1986, pp. 178, 318, 319, cat. no. S25
G. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1986, pp. 178, 318, 319, cat. no. S25