拍品 186
186
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PAIR OF FRENCH GREEN-PATINATED TORCHERE FIGURES, in the manner of Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, each of a lightly-clad maiden, their hair tied in a chignon with tresses falling about their shoulders, one with a flower to her cleavage, with drapery falling about them, on a circular stepped base,signed THIEBAUT Frs FONDEURS (formerly with a light fitting, the bases filled with ballast), late 19th Century

细节
A PAIR OF FRENCH GREEN-PATINATED TORCHERE FIGURES, in the manner of Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, each of a lightly-clad maiden, their hair tied in a chignon with tresses falling about their shoulders, one with a flower to her cleavage, with drapery falling about them, on a circular stepped base,signed THIEBAUT Frs FONDEURS (formerly with a light fitting, the bases filled with ballast), late 19th Century

54in. (137.2cm.) high and 54½in. (138.4cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

These figures are executed in the style associated with the celebrated sculptor Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (d. 1887). Although not signed, the stance, phyisognmy and the treatment of the falling hair are characteristic of Carrier-Belleuse's Oeuvre (see footnote to Lot 377).

Thiébaut Frères, based in the Faubourg St. Denis were one of Paris' most productive foundries of the second half 19th Century, having a reputation for consistent casts, often superior to their rivals.