A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF A MAIDEN AND CLOCK, shown standing in a long classical robe with bare shoulders, her left arm leaning against a pedestal, holding a book, her head veiled, decorated with roses and inclined to read, the bronze pedestal of tapering form and incorporating a clock with red marble dial and striking movement, decorated with three portrait medallions, swags and rosettes, the group on a stepped and shaped red marble base, enriched with bronze mounts of fasces, egg and dart motif, scrolls and a central mask, on bronze feet, second half 19th Century | Christie's

Lot 189

189

A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF A MAIDEN AND CLOCK, shown standing in a long classical robe with bare shoulders, her left arm leaning against a pedestal, holding a book, her head veiled, decorated with roses and inclined to read, the bronze pedestal of tapering form and incorporating a clock with red marble dial and striking movement, decorated with three portrait medallions, swags and rosettes, the group on a stepped and shaped red marble base, enriched with bronze mounts of fasces, egg and dart motif, scrolls and a central mask, on bronze feet, second half 19th Century

Details

A FRENCH BRONZE GROUP OF A MAIDEN AND CLOCK, shown standing in a long classical robe with bare shoulders, her left arm leaning against a pedestal, holding a book, her head veiled, decorated with roses and inclined to read, the bronze pedestal of tapering form and incorporating a clock with red marble dial and striking movement, decorated with three portrait medallions, swags and rosettes, the group on a stepped and shaped red marble base, enriched with bronze mounts of fasces, egg and dart motif, scrolls and a central mask, on bronze feet, second half 19th Century
27¾in. (69cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
H. Berman, Bronzes, Sculptors & Founders 1800-1930, Chicago, 1974, no. 256

Lot Essay

The style of the figure is reminiscent of work of Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse and Emile-François Fouquet, in particular a figure of the same subject by Fouquet dating from the middle of the 19th century illustrated in Berman (op. cit.).

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