THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A French marble bust entitled 'Romaine du Transtevere, 25 ans' ('Roman woman of Trastevere, 25 years old')

BY CHARLES-HENRI-JOSEPH CORDIER, CIRCA 1860

Details

A French marble bust entitled 'Romaine du Transtevere, 25 ans' ('Roman woman of Trastevere, 25 years old')
By Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier, Circa 1860
Signed Cordier, on an associated marble plinth
39½ in. (100.5 cm.) high, overall

Literature

L. de Margerie & E. Papet, Facing the Other, Charles Cordier (1827-1905), Ethnographic Sculptor, New York, 2004, pp. 168, 169 & 201, no. 454, fig. 453 (plaster version).

Exhibited

Exhibition of the Anthropological Gallery at the Palais de l'Industrie, Paris, 1860, no. 19.

Exhibition of the Ethnological Gallery, London, 1861, no. 19.

Lot Essay

This massive bust was conceived, along with a plaster example, circa 1858. According to a contemporary sale catalogue marked by Robert Wenley, currently preserved at the Wallace Collection, London, a bust of the same description as the present lot - likely the exact one - was sold to a J. Walker for £55.13, together with a pendant "Femme Grecque de Missolonghi" (Greek woman of Missolonghi), at Cordier's London sale on 8 May 1861, no. 38.

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