FRENCH, CIRCLE OF PIERRE PUGET (1620-1694), CIRCA 1700

细节

A PAIR OF FRENCH CARVED MARBLE BUSTS OF ALEXANDER AND HERCULES
French, circle of Pierre Puget (1620-1694), circa 1700
The soldier wearing armour and a helmet and looking to sinister, Hercules wearing his lion pelt and looking to dexter, each on an integrally carved circular socle and later panelled spreading square marble pedestal, very minor chips
14 and 13in. (35.5 and 33cm.) high, 19½ and 18¼in. (49.5 and 46.3cm.) high, overall (2)

来源

Acquired from Mount Street Galleries, London, 1987.

出版

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F.Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries - The reign of Louis XIV, Paris, 1981, III, no. 22, pp. 198-199.

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拍品专文

Pierre Puget was one of the few major French sculptors of the reign of Louis XIV whose career was not dominated by courtly society in Paris and Versailles. Born in Marseilles, he divided his time between Italy and the cities of the south and south west of France, with only two brief sojourns in the capital.

The present pair of busts display a robustness of carving which is entirely characteristic of Puget's work. The facial types, with their furrowed brows and squat proportions are also directly comparable with the faces executed by Puget in his monumental marble relief of Alexander and Diogenes, now in the Louvre (Souchal, loc. cit.).