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    Nineteenth Century Works of Art

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    31 October 1996

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    Lot 340

    A French white marble bust of Marguerite

    BY NICHOLAS LECORNEY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    GBP 3,680

    Estimate

    GBP 2,200 - GBP 2,800

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    A French white marble bust of Marguerite
    By Nicholas Lecorney, Late 19th Century
    The young woman with plaited hair and with a flower chain to her waist, signed Lecorney, on a circular-spreading stepped socle
    26½in. (67.3cm.) high

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    Lot Essay

    The present bust by Lecorney depicts Marguerite, the innocent and beautiful heroine of Gounod's opera Faust (1859) and a popular subject for portrayal in late 19th Century sculpture. The aged Faust falls in love with the young maiden and enters into a devillish pact with Mephistopheles, whereby he trades his soul for renewed youth and the symbollic 'flower' of Marguerite.

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