AN ENGLISH BRONZE STUDY OF A MOTHER AND CHILD, TOGETHER WITH ITS PLASTER MAQUETTE, cast from a model by Charles de Sousy Ricketts, the mother cradling the infant child in her arms and holding it to her chest, seated on a naturalistic oval base, each model inscribed in monogram C.R, the bronze on a rectangular stepped wooden plinth, the underside with paper label, PAPETERIE ROUSSEL LE BOCEY-ROPERT SUCCr 35 Rue Jeanne d'Arc ROUEN, circa 1910

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AN ENGLISH BRONZE STUDY OF A MOTHER AND CHILD, TOGETHER WITH ITS PLASTER MAQUETTE, cast from a model by Charles de Sousy Ricketts, the mother cradling the infant child in her arms and holding it to her chest, seated on a naturalistic oval base, each model inscribed in monogram C.R, the bronze on a rectangular stepped wooden plinth, the underside with paper label, PAPETERIE ROUSSEL LE BOCEY-ROPERT SUCCr 35 Rue Jeanne d'Arc ROUEN, circa 1910
the bronze: 9in. (22.8cm.) high; overall: 11in. (28cm.) high
the plaster: 9¼in. (23.5cm.) high (2)

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: A.J.Tillbrook and Fischer Fine Art, Truth, Beauty and Design; Victorian, Edwardian and Later Decorative Art, London, 1986.
T.S.Moore, Charles Ricketts R.A., Cassell and Company, London, 1933. J.Darracott, The Works of Charles Ricketts, Eyre Methuen, London, 1980.

Exhibited

London, Fischer Fine Art, Truth, Beauty and Design; Victorian, Edwardian and Later Decorative Art, 15 May - 27 June 1986, no. 193 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

Charles de Sousy Ricketts (d.1931) was born in Geneva and educated in Paris. Arriving in London in 1879, together with a close friend he set up a printing press for which he illustrated books, including Oscar Wilde's A House of Pomegranates (1891). His first exhibition of sculpture was held at the Carfax Gallery, London, in March 1906. Despite the editions of his bronzes being strictly limited to usually no more than half a dozen, sales were poor, Ricketts making an overall loss on the exhibition. The present study of the Mother and Child was first exhibited between 1905 and 1909 and it is one of very few casts made.

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