A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF THE NEAPOLITAN FISHER-BOY ENTITLED 'JEUNE PECHEUR A LA COQUILLE, cast from a model by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, , the nude boy crouching down on his right knee, a net draped over his left leg, wearing a cap and holding a conch-shell to his left ear, on a naturalistic stepped base, signed JBte Carpeaux 1873 and on a modern octagonal wooden plinth (small crack to the right hand of stepped base), last quarter 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF THE NEAPOLITAN FISHER-BOY ENTITLED 'JEUNE PECHEUR A LA COQUILLE, cast from a model by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, , the nude boy crouching down on his right knee, a net draped over his left leg, wearing a cap and holding a conch-shell to his left ear, on a naturalistic stepped base, signed JBte Carpeaux 1873 and on a modern octagonal wooden plinth (small crack to the right hand of stepped base), last quarter 19th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE OF THE NEAPOLITAN FISHER-BOY ENTITLED 'JEUNE PECHEUR A LA COQUILLE, cast from a model by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, , the nude boy crouching down on his right knee, a net draped over his left leg, wearing a cap and holding a conch-shell to his left ear, on a naturalistic stepped base, signed JBte Carpeaux 1873 and on a modern octagonal wooden plinth (small crack to the right hand of stepped base), last quarter 19th Century
7½in. (9cm.) wide; 13½in. (34.3cm.) high; 6¼in. (15.9cm.) deep excluding the plinth

Lot Essay

The present figure entitled Jeune Pêcheur à la coquille was originally executed in plaster in 1857 and sent to the Salon the following year. A bronze cast was exhibited at the Salon in 1859 and a marble version in 1863. The net draped over the boy's leg was a later addition, being added by Carpeaux in 1872.

See footnote to lot 247.

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