A SEVRES (SECOND REPUBLIC) BISCUIT PORTRAIT FIGURE OF CATHERINE II OF RUSSIA

DATED 1898, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE LOZENGE MARK AND INCISED G.(USTAVE) DÉLOYE

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A SEVRES (SECOND REPUBLIC) BISCUIT PORTRAIT FIGURE OF CATHERINE II OF RUSSIA
DATED 1898, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE LOZENGE MARK AND INCISED G.(USTAVE) DÉLOYE
The Empress of all the Russias seated on a rocky ledge in formal dress, her left hand resting on a crowned orb, her right hand holding a scepter, a branch of laurel, emblematic of her artistic talents, growing up the rock at her left
17 3/8 in. (44.2 cm.) high

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Please note that the present lot is being sold on behalf of the Estate of John DeLorean.

拍品專文

The present biscuit portrait, dated 1898, is a reduction of the life-size monument made at Sèvres in the same material and installed in the garden of the Russian Embassy in honor of Tsar Nicholas II's visit to Paris in 1896.

Jean-Baptiste-Gustave Déloye was employed as a sculptor at the Sèvres factory 1888-1897. He exhibited a plaster model for the monument at the Paris Salon of 1892 (no. 2498). This maquette, at 51 cm. high slightly larger than the present biscuit, is now in the Musée d'Angers, a gift of the artist's widow in 1900.

See Émile Bourgeois and Geo. Lechavallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, Recueil des Modèles Modernes de La Manufacture de Sèvres, tome II, plache 46, no. 1054; also Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'école Française au dix-neuvième siècle, tome II, p. 161.