BY EMMANUEL FRÉMIET (PARIS 1824 - 1910 PARIS), 1866

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A MONUMENTAL BRONZE VASE
BY EMMANUEL FRÉMIET (PARIS 1824 - 1910 PARIS), 1866
Decorated with scenes of deer; signed and dated 'FREMIET, 1866.'
66 ½ in. (174 cm.) high; 43 ¼ in. (110 cm.) wide

Provenance

Étienne Marie Charles de Pomereu, Marquis d'Aligre (1813 - 1889) and his wife née Marie Amélie Louise Charlotte de Préaulx (1854-1926),
Thence by descent until the sale with Me Thierry de Maigret, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 June 2012, lot 253.

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
F.-G. Dumas (dir.), Catalogue illustré du Salon de 1880, Société des artistes français, Paris, 1880, pp. 185-186.
E. de Biez, E. Frémiet, Paris, 1910.
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l’École française au dix-neuvième siècle, Paris, vol. II, 1919, pp. 405-419.
C. Chevillot, ‘Les marques de fonderie’, in L’Estampille, March 1986, no. 190, p. 56.
C. Chevillot, Emmanuel Frémiet ‘La main et le multiple’, exh. cat. Dijon and Grenoble, 1988.

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Lot Essay

This impressive monumental vase, signed and dated 1866, exemplifies Frémiet’s rare venture into large-scale decorative bronze casting. Probably commissioned by the Marquis d’Aligre for the Château des Vaux in Eure-et-Loir, a prominent estate renowned for its grand hunting traditions, the vase skillfully combines Louis XIV classical motifs inspired by Versailles with the anatomical precision characteristic of 19th-century animal sculpture.

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