A FRENCH PATINATED-BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED LADY ENTITLED 'LA BRODEUSE' (THE EMBROIDERER)
A FRENCH PATINATED-BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED LADY ENTITLED 'LA BRODEUSE' (THE EMBROIDERER)
A FRENCH PATINATED-BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED LADY ENTITLED 'LA BRODEUSE' (THE EMBROIDERER)
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A FRENCH PATINATED-BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED LADY ENTITLED 'LA BRODEUSE' (THE EMBROIDERER)
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A FRENCH PATINATED-BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED LADY ENTITLED 'LA BRODEUSE' (THE EMBROIDERER)

CAST BY A. A. HEBRARD FROM THE MODEL BY AIME-JULES DALOU (1838-1902), PARIS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH PATINATED-BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED LADY ENTITLED 'LA BRODEUSE' (THE EMBROIDERER)
CAST BY A. A. HEBRARD FROM THE MODEL BY AIME-JULES DALOU (1838-1902), PARIS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Signed 'DALOU' with foundry stamp 'CIRE / PERDUE / A.A. HEBRARD' and numbered '(B-1)'
11 ½ in. (29 cm.) high
出版
A. Simier, Jules Dalou, le sculpteur de la République, Exhibition catalogue, 18 April – 13 July 2013, Paris, p. 343-345, no. 280.

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Adam Kulewicz
Adam Kulewicz

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'La Brodeuse', the embroider, is the first of Dalou’s sculptures showing young women seated, reading, washing, sewing or holding children. These homely scenes occupied Dalou for a decade and were hugely popular. Their intimacy and sentimentality belie the modernity, almost radicalism, with which they were viewed at the time – when set alongside the heroic and grandiose sculpture of the Second Empire. A lifesize plaster of La Brodeuse was exhibited at the Salon in 1870 and bought by the State for 3000 fr. to be carved in marble. This bronze is cast from a plaster sketch, and the fluidity of Dalou’s hand modelling remains visible in the bronze. It is one of a small edition cast by the Hébrard foundry; among a number of bronzes that Dalou reserved in his will to be cast to benefit the Orphelinat des Arts and so take care of his daughter Georgette after his death.

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