AFTER A MODEL BY FRANCOIS GIRARDON (1628-1715), FRENCH, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

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A MARBLE MEDALLION OF THE VIRGIN OF SORROWS
AFTER A MODEL BY FRANCOIS GIRARDON (1628-1715), FRENCH, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
28 3/8 in. (72 cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F. Souchal, French sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries, The reign of Louis XIV, Paris, 1981, vol. 2, p. 17, fig. 10.

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Lot Essay

Girardon realised a marble oval medallion of the Virgin of Sorrows as a reception piece for the Academy in 1656-57, today in the musée du Louvre (inv. R.F. 3148; Souchal, loc. cit.), as a pendant to the medallion of Saint John the Baptist by Thomas Regnaudin (church of Notre-Dame, Versailles). The present relief differs slightly from the original in the cut of the drapery in the lower part and by the absence of a border. We know that Girardon had first realised a terracotta model for his reception piece, and two examples in plaster were cast after the marble medallion (musée des Beaux-Arts, Troyes).

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