A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF A DANCING BACCHANTE, cast from a model by H.Dumaige, her hair tied at the back and adorned with vines, holding aloft in each hand a pair of castanets, her right leg raised and standing on her left, on a circular base, inscribed H. Dumaige, on a circular black marble stepped plinth, late 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF A DANCING BACCHANTE, cast from a model by H.Dumaige, her hair tied at the back and adorned with vines, holding aloft in each hand a pair of castanets, her right leg raised and standing on her left, on a circular base, inscribed H. Dumaige, on a circular black marble stepped plinth, late 19th Century
15in. (38cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous Sale in these Rooms, 4 November 1982, lot 75.

Lot Essay

Etienne Henri Dumaige (d.1888) was born in Paris and studied under Jean Jaques Feuchère (d.1852). Exhibiting at the Salon between the years 1862 and 1867 he produced a large number of busts, groups and statues in marble, plaster and bronze.

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