拍品 183
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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF NATURE UNVEILING HERSELF BEFORE SCIENCE, cast from a model by Louis-Ernest Barrias, the nymph shown standing and unveiling herself, with richly contrasting patinations and malachite scarab brooch, on waisted marble socle, signed E. Barrias, inscribed Susse Fres. Edtrs. and with Susse stamp, late 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF NATURE UNVEILING HERSELF BEFORE SCIENCE, cast from a model by Louis-Ernest Barrias, the nymph shown standing and unveiling herself, with richly contrasting patinations and malachite scarab brooch, on waisted marble socle, signed E. Barrias, inscribed Susse Fres. Edtrs. and with Susse stamp, late 19th Century
25½in. (65cm.) high including socle

拍品专文

Barrias' first version of this allegorical figure was in marble and was exhibited at the 1893 Salon and acquired by the École de Médecine in Bordeaux. He re-worked the model slightly, but maintained the sensuous treatment of Nature as a voluptuous woman slowly unfastening her robe. Barrias often had the figure enriched with a variety of materials and patinas, as in the present example, adding to the sense of opulence typical of the fin-de-siècle.