A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF A RENAISSANCE MAN, cast from a model by Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, standing, wearing sixteenth century costume, holding a slate in his left hand and a writing implement in his right, leaning against an ornately cast classical pedestal with a large bound volume at it's foot, on a naturalistic rectangular base, signed to the reverse A.E.CARRIER (the slate repaired), late 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF A RENAISSANCE MAN, cast from a model by Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, standing, wearing sixteenth century costume, holding a slate in his left hand and a writing implement in his right, leaning against an ornately cast classical pedestal with a large bound volume at it's foot, on a naturalistic rectangular base, signed to the reverse A.E.CARRIER (the slate repaired), late 19th Century
9in. (23cm.) wide; 13in. (33cm.) high; 4 1/8in. (10.3cm.) deep

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This figure of a Renaissance man is typical of the work of A.E. Carrier-Belleuse (d.1887), who made many models of period figures in period clothes. He was one of France's most prolific and versatile sculptors of the nineteenth century who worked in a selection of mediums including porcelain, terracotta and bronze.

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