WORKSHOP OR AFTER ETIENNE MAURICE FALCONET (FRENCH, 1716–1791), LATE 18TH CENTURY
WORKSHOP OR AFTER ETIENNE MAURICE FALCONET (FRENCH, 1716–1791), LATE 18TH CENTURY
WORKSHOP OR AFTER ETIENNE MAURICE FALCONET (FRENCH, 1716–1791), LATE 18TH CENTURY
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WORKSHOP OR AFTER ETIENNE MAURICE FALCONET (FRENCH, 1716–1791), LATE 18TH CENTURY
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WORKSHOP OR AFTER ETIENNE MAURICE FALCONET (FRENCH, 1716–1791), LATE 18TH CENTURY

Leda and the Swan

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WORKSHOP OR AFTER ETIENNE MAURICE FALCONET (FRENCH, 1716–1791), LATE 18TH CENTURY
Leda and the Swan
On a later base
white marble
13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) high, 17 ¾ in. (45 cm.) high, overall
來源
By repute:
Sir William Hamilton, British Ambassador to Naples, c. 1780,
King Ferdinand I of the two Sicilies, Naples,
By descent, H.R.H. Maria Amalia, his daughter,
King Louis Philippe of France,
By descent, Henri d'Orléans, Duc D'Aumale, Château de Chantilly, Chantilly,
Charles Louis de Rohan-Chabot, Duc de Rohan, Château de Josselin, Brittany,
Charles Gabriel-Henri, Duc de Rohan, Château de Condé, Condé-sur-Itou (Eure), sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, March 20 and 21, 1953, lot 281.
The Property of A Mid-Western Private Collector; Christie's, New York, 7 June 2011, lot 307.

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Taylor Alessio
Taylor Alessio Junior Specialist, Head of Part II

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This lovely marble, so emblematic of late 18th century France, closely relates to several of Falconet's well-known models. One, La Douce Mélancolique, depicts a similarly lightly clad maiden standing alongside a column and cradling a dove seated on the column's top. This model was conceived in plaster as early as 1761 but the marble version -- destined for the famous collector de Lalive de Jully -- was exhibited in 1765. Another variation, L'Innocence couronnant l'Amour, known only through a Sèvres biscuit reduction and formerly in the Wildenstein Collection, has a pair of doves being crowned with a wreath of roses (see L. Réau, Etienne-Maurice Falconet, vol. I, Paris, 1922, pp. 224-225). However, the present model has substituted a more rustic tree trunk for the columns in the other Falconet versions.

The illustrious early provenance of the present lot, which was supplied by the 1953 sale catalogue, is not substantiated by known inventories, but it does, however, seem entirely plausible. Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), the British Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, was one of the greatest connoisseurs of the 18th century. His collection of both Antique and contemporary sculpture and works of art was legendary. And, as a resident of Naples for thirty six years, he was a close friend and supporter of King Ferdinand IV.

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