Lot 144
144
A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A NUDE ENTITLED 'LA SEVE' OR 'LA METAMORPHOSE DE DAPHNE'
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN FAMILY COLLECTION (LOTS 104-149)
A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A NUDE ENTITLED 'LA SEVE' OR 'LA METAMORPHOSE DE DAPHNE'

CAST BY SIOT-DECAUVILLE FROM A MODEL BY FRANÇOIS-RAOUL LARCHE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A NUDE ENTITLED 'LA SEVE' OR 'LA METAMORPHOSE DE DAPHNE'
CAST BY SIOT-DECAUVILLE FROM A MODEL BY FRANÇOIS-RAOUL LARCHE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The circular naturalistic base signed 'RAOUL LARCHE', with foundry cachet 'SIOT-DECAUVILLE/FONDEUR/PARIS'and impressed number '9627'
36 3/8 in. (92.3 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

La Sève depicts Daphne at the moment she asked the Gods to turn her into a laurel tree to resist the advances of Apollo. Admired for its organic Art Nouveau-inspired form, the plaster model was exhibited to critical acclaim at the Paris Salon of 1893 and a marble commissioned by the French state in 1907. Siot-Decauville cast La Sève in three sizes, the present lot being an example of the second largest.

François Raoul Larche studied at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1878, before debuting his work at the Société des Artistes Français in 1881, and exhibiting regularly at the Salon between 1884 and 1911. His work was acclaimed at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle, where he was awarded the gold medal for sculpture.

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