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Alfredo Pina ( Italian 1883 - 1966 ) "Adam " signed Alfredo Pina, Carrara Marble Circa 1910
Dimensions: height 25inches, length 24 inches, width 16 inches
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Unsigned (American? Art Deco / Art Moderne Circa 1935)" Corpus" A bronze corpus mounted on a black painted metal crucifix affixed to a bronze crucifix back plate
Dimensions:Total height 22 inches high by 18 inches wide
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Paul Auguste Gagne (French 19th century) "La Reine de Babylone" Bronze bust of Isis with black patina and Dore highlights circa 1880. (Similar to the work of Emile Hebert.) This superbly cast bronze is highly detailed - with a high degree of hand finishing. Inscribed with the title and signed P.Gagne for Paul Gagne (the brother of painter Jacques Gagne, aka Jules Gagniet). Paul Gagne exhibited in the Paris salons from 1865.
Dimensions: Height 10& 1/4 inches by 5 inches in width.
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Circa 1851 bronze sculpture of Lucretia with foundry signature for Thiebaut Frères. Cast Second half of the 19th century.
Victor Thiébaut established a foundry devoted to works of art in 1851. At the beginning, they cast raw bronzes that they gave to Barbedienne or other founders to finish. Then Victor Thiébaut went into patrnership with various famous sculptors: David d'Angers, Carpeaux, Falguière, Carrier-Belleuse, Paul Dubois or Pradier. In 1898, Rodin signed a contract with this company regarding the casting of two of his works in different sizes: /Saint John the Baptist /and /Triumphant youth/. In 1901, Victor Thiébaut sold the firm to Gasne and retired.
Dimensions: Height 12 inches by 15 &1/2 inches in length by 6 inches in width. |
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" The Colosus of the Nile", attributed to the workshop of Francesco Righetti (the elder) (Italian, 1738- 1819)
Dimensions: Bronze sculpture height 13&1/2 inches by 22& 1/2 inches in length by 11 inches in width
Total height (including base) 17 inches by 24&1/4 inches in length by 14&1/4 inches in width. |
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“The Colossus of the Nile" attributed to the workshop of Francesco Righetti (the elder) (Italian, 1738- 1819) An after the antique tour de force bronze sculpture on an elaborate purple marble and slate base. The bronze sculpture is meticulously cast and detailed. There are sixteen individual children (all with distinctly different facial expressions) that adorn the Colossus of the Nile. Traces of gilding are still evident on the bronze base and the Colossus figure. Gilding is typical of Francesco Righetti's workshop examples.The execution of this bronze required a very high degree of hand finishing. It should be noted that the marble and slate base created specifically for this bronze is also very similar to the marble bases found on other works from Francesco Righetti's workshop. Francesco Righetti (apart from being well known for his foundry in Rome) was also a very accomplished sculptor who had been taught by the leading silversmith in Rome, Luigi Valadier (Italian, 1726-1785). Righetti quickly became Valadier's successor in producing faithful replicas of celebrated statues, both ancient and modern. Righetti sometimes collaborated with other artists in the sculpting of these models. A 1785 entry in the diary of Vincenzo Pacetti mentions that, Camillo ( his brother) was making "alcune copie per Righetti il Metallaro"( several copies for Righetti in metal). Camillo Pacetti (Rome, 2 May 1758 - Milan, 6 July 1826) copied antiquities in Righetti's workshop in 1785. Righetti was not the only artist to offer miniature versions - his rivals Giacomo and Giovanni Zoffoli produced similar versions in their slightly less expensive line of statuettes. During the 1785 Righetti acquired the Zoffoli bronze foundry ( thus removing his main competitor of cast bronze sculpture). Part of James Harper's, "Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century (2000), pp. 276-277 " writes that In 1794 Righetti published a catalogue-style price list of the miniature statues available from his workshop, a document that attests both to the scope of his production and to his promotional talent. The offerings included seventy-eight single figures, twenty-five figure groups, forty-six busts, and various vases, trophies, and animal sculptures. Although most of the advertised bronzes were after noted antiquities, the catalogue also lists copies of modern works, including four statuettes after Bernini and five after Giambologna. In the same document the sculptor expressed his willingness to do custom work, offering to copy statues of the buyer's choice either in miniature or in full scale. Significantly, the 1794 price list is written in French, suggesting that Righetti conceived the miniatures for a foreign clientele.
The present bronze is after the reconstructed marble by Gaspare Sibilla ( Italian 1723-1782) for Pope Clement XIV; using drawings as references and his own imagination. This marble sculpture is currently the centerpiece of the Braccio Nouvo (new wing of the Vatican) – It is considered a Roman sculpture from the 1st century A.D. but is likely after an Hellenistic sculpture. Gaspare Sibilla was the sculptor to the Vatican -- who also created sculpture for church monuments such as the Monument to Benedict XIV in St. Peter's Cathedral and the monument to Cardinal Niccolò Antonelli in San Giovanni in Laterano. Sibilla was considered the chief restorer of the collection of antiquities in the Vatican. This marble sculpture was discovered in the sixteenth century in Rome under the church of "Santa Maria Sopra Minerva". The first recorded description of the sculpture was in 1523 and it was originally part of a fountain in the Belvedere statue court facing the river Tiber.
An example similar in size to the present bronze sculpture was created in ceramic biscuit by Giovanni Volpato (Italian, 1735 Bassano del Grappa - 1803, Rome). This ceramic sculpture is part of the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (A link to their web page is included below.) It should be noted that the floral and wave like details on the present bronze sculpture are faithful to the original Vatican marble sculpture and differ from the Metropolitan Museum /Volpato example mentioned previously. Volpato started his artistic life as an engraver who was initially taught by his mother. He also studied with the Remondini family (pre-eminent printers from the 17th to the 19th centuries). In his early twenties Volpato lived in Venice and worked under Francesco Bartolozzi. He moved to Rome in 1771 and found great success there creating engravings from Raphael’s paintings. Volpato’s oeuvre of engravings can be divided into three categories: architectural, topographical and humorous scenes from daily life. Volpato was both an archaeologist and a dealer in antiquities.In 1785 he opened a factory creating white glazed earthenware sculptures and introducing the art of hard paste biscuit china to the city of Rome. He employed over 20 modelers on the Via Pudenziana creating sculptures for the Grand Tour visitors. The Volpato factory created a less expensive alternative to the bronze sculptures by the Francesco Righetti (1738- 1819) and Giacomo and Giovanni Zoffoli (1738-1795 & (1745-1805) foundries in Rome. After Volpato's death in 1803 the ceramic factory was run by wife (who had remarried the chief modeler) and his son Guiseppe. The factory ceased production in 1831. The Wallace collection has a far less elaborate bronze of the Nile of similar dimension but without the 16 children (Illustrated on plate 45 of the 1931 catalogue) .This bronze sculpture was exhibited in Bethnal Green London from 1874-1875 and is possibly exhibition number 1386.
References :
The ancient Romans by Michael J. Vickers, University of Oxford Press 1992.
Taste and the antique: the lure of classical sculpture, 1500-1900 By Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny 1998
Draper, James David. "The River Nile, a Giovanni Volpato Masterwork." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 37 (2002).
James Harper, from Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century (2000), cat. 147, p. 277.
Hugh Honour,Neo-classicism 1968 Penguin.
Hiesinger, Ulrich W. and Ann Percy. A Scholar Collects: Selections from the Anthony Morris Clark Bequest. Philadelphia: Phildelphia Museum of Art, 1980, p.126.
The Wallace Collection Catalogues .Sculpture By J.G. Mann 1931.
Link to Volpato version : http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2001.456 |
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Marius Mars-Vallet (French 1869-1957) "Sarah Bernhardt as Theodora " Circa 1900 bronze sculpture with multi coloured polychrome patinas, signed and with the foundry seal for Frederic Goldscheider Paris, cire perdue
Dimensions: Total height 13&3/4 inches by 7&1/2 inches in width and 4 &1/2 inches in depth |
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Augustin.M.J.Garry (French late 19 th - early 20th century) dated 1916 bronze of Emile Zola (lost wax cast) with French foundry marks
Dimensions: Total height 8 & 3/4 inches |
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After Johann Heinrich von Dannecker ( German 1758-1841) A superb and monumental Italian circa 1890 hand carved white marble group of Ariadne and the panther. Ariadne naked with a vine wreath in her hair, looking ahead and lying across the back of a panther, her elbow resting on its head and holding drapery in her hand, on a stepped rectangular marble base
Dimensions: Total height 22 inches by length 25 inches by width 10&1/2 inches
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H.W.Janson,/ Nineteenth Century Sculpture,/ Thames and Hudson, 1985, pp. 62-3.
The present sculpture is after the celebrated work by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (d.1841) in the State Sculpture Gallery, Frankfurt. Ariadne, daughter of the king of King Minos of Crete, having helped Theseus, whom she loved, to escape from the Labyrinth was in return abandoned by him on the island of Naxos. Bacchus rescued her, consoled her and they soon were married. The vine wreaths in Ariadne's hair allude to her union with Bacchus the God of wine, as does the panther which is often depicted drawing Bacchus's Triumphal chariot. Ariadne's Heavenward gaze may also relate to the constellation that Bacchus created when he threw her jeweled crown to the Heavens. |
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Adolph Joseph Pohl (Austrian 1872-?)"Miner", signed in the bronze. Bronze set on carved marble base with plaque depicting miners carrying equipment
Dimensions: height of bronze including marble base 16 inches
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Augustin Edme Moreau-Vauthier / (attributed ) / (French 1831-1893)
"Hermes" A superbly modeled and cast unsigned bronze sculpture of the
son of Zeus circa 1880 on an octagonal marble base
Dimensions: Total height 13&1/4 inches |
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Benedetto Civiletti (Italian 1846-1899) "The Canaris brothers". Famous Greek naval heroes. Superb Chiurazzi Foundry bronze cast circa 1880. Original marble at the Via Turati entrance to the Politeama Theatre in Palermo. Konstantine Kanaris 1790-1877, Greek patriot, admiral, and politician. He distinguished himself in the Greek War of Independence, notably at Tenedos, where he destroyed in 1822 the flagship of the Turkish admiral. Kanaris served several terms as minister of the navy and as premier in 1848-49, and he became increasingly active in political life. In 1862 he was a leader in the revolution that ousted King Otto and put George I on the Greek throne.
Dimensions: Total Height 17&3/4 inches, by 13&1/2 inches in length, by 7 &1/2 inches in width |
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Josef Wagner ( Czech 1901- 1957) Life size signed portrait bust of "Bedrich Smetana" in bronze. Cast circa 1930 with foundry marks for K.Bartak Praha and set on a rouge marble base
Dimensions: Total height 15 inches |
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Manolis Tzobanakis (Greek 20th Century) "Alexander, the King of Macedonia", Bronze Signed and dated Roma '71 and cast numbered 2/6
Dimensions:Total height 18 inches by 15 inches in width, height of marble
base alone 3 inches
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Emile Edmond Peynot (French 1850-1923) Monumental signed gilded bronze sculpture of a seated laughing cavalier raising a flask of wine as he sits on an elaborate chair
Dimensions: Total height 31&1/2 inches |
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Adolf Jahn (German 1858-1925) "Shylock" The central character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice who famously demanded a pound of flesh from the title character, Antonio. Hand carved alabaster and signed A.Jahn circa 1900. Dimensions: Total height 21&1/2 inches. |
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Carl Kauba (Austrian 1865-1922) "Judith". Bronze sculpture on marble base. The bronze is signed C.Thenn and has a copyright seal for Thenn Austria . We have had this sculpture signed by C. Kauba. Note: Carl Kauba and Karl Thenn are the same person. Well detailed Austrian Vienna bronze with an acid patina to the body parts and red brown clothing and a dark green/black/brown base.
Dimensions: Total height 10 inches.
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Ivan Mestrovic (Yugoslavian/American 1883-1962) "Socrates" Bronze
with black patination unsigned. Provenance:The Estate of the writer Clement Stone Oaks Manor, Lakeforest Chicago, gift from Ivan Mestrovic while he was teaching at Notre Dame University.
Dimensions: Height 17&1/2 by 16 inches in width by 24 inches in length |
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A fine and rare LouisXVI style French onyx marble mantel clock from the late 18 th century or early 19 th century." Diane chasseresse au repos." The onyx clock inset with ormolu plaques cast with playful putti, the edges with scrolling gilded acanthus leaves and pine cones and other gilded bronze devises. foliate mounts, raised on bun feet. The onyx dial carved and gilded incised Roman numerals, with the maker Maison Marnyhac 48 Blvd de l'Opera further incised on the dial. The Marnyhac foundry (founded circa 1850) worked closely with Jean-Baptiste Clesinger (1814-1883). The bronze sculpture of Diana rests atop the clock latching her sandal with the crescent moon in her hair is quite possibly a sculpture by this artist, although unsigned.
Dimensions. Total height 21 inches, by19 &1/2 inches in length by 9 &1/2 inches in width |
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Expressionist Bronze Corpus, possibly German, Circa 1930
Dimensions: Height 22 inches by 15 inches in width |
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A carved walnut relief memorial sculpture to a German First World War flying ace Herbert Mausz "Am 8 August an der Somme verschollen nach sie gr eichem luetkampf " (Herbert Mausz lost on the morning of the 8 th of August after a victorious air combat over the Somme. )The sculpture dates to 1916. Signed lower right GG, possibly Gustav Gurschner (Austrian 1873-1971)
Dimensions: Height 22 inches by 12 inches in wifth by 5 inches in depth |
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Vienna Bronze character entitled “Rafaelli" Circa 1910
Dimensions: Total height 7&1/4 inches. |
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After Francesco Fanelli, (Italian 1605- 1661) Inkwell in the form of a Triton, early 18th century bronze, cast after a model by Francesco Fanelli .During the period of 1605-1661 he worked in London and it was at this time he designed the Triton Inkwell, The oldest version is in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, and is illustrated on pages 248 - 251 of the book of the same title .During the 17th Century many of these inkwells were cast and altered in one way or another. Francesco Fanelli was dead by 1675 and It seems likely that John Bank, his pupil, still living in 1718 had removed some of the original casts from the studio and had an expert foundry cast them in London.
Dimensions:Total height7 inches, height of bronze alone 5&3/4 inches |
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Jaroslav Horejc (Czech, 1886-1983) "Medusa",Model circa 1920, signed, bronze possibly cast in the 1960's
Dimensions: 20 inches high with black marble base |
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Jean Jacques Pradier(French 1792-1852)"Pandora" 19th century finely cast unsigned bronze
Dimensions Height 16&1/4 inches
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Bretislav Benda (Czech 1897-1983) "The Temptation". An early monumental allegorical figure circa 1921 green /brown patinated bronze sculpture of a nude female figure with her right index finger in a beckoning position while she holds an apple as she stands on the shoulders of a crouching devil. Her right arm supports a hovering angel aloft on her shoulder.Signed with the monogram BB
Dimensions: Total height including the base is 28 &1/4 inches, height of octagonal marble base alone is 2&3/4 inches. |
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Leon Pilet,(French 1840-1916) "Diana", Signed bronze on Belgian marble base
Dimensions: Total height 23 inches by 19&1/2 inches in length. Height of the base alone is 3&1/2 inches |
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Leon Pilet (French 1840-1916) "Antiope" Bronze sculpture circa 1900, signed
Dimensions: Total height 16 inches.
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Louis Tuaillon (German 1862-1919) "Hercules wrestling the Erymanthian Boar". Early circa 1901 bronze sculpture from the plaster sketch. Similar versions in The Kunsthale Museum Bremen and in The Darmstadt Museum for the life size version that stands today in the Lutzowplatz Berlin.
Signed and with foundry marks for Martin & Piltzing Berlin, the first foundry to cast this sculpture in bronze.
Dimensions: Total height 19&1/4 inches by 16 inches in length by 7&1/2 inches in width
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Archimedes Giacomoantonio (American 1905-1988) "Beethoven" Circa 1935 signed bronze sculpture of a monumental Beethoven holding a feather quill pen in his right hand looking downward in a pensive pose. Unique four times life sze cast with foundry marks for The American Art Foundry New York .
Dimensions: Total height 30 inches , 21 &1/2 inches in length by 21 &1/2 inches in depth.
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Giovan Battista Amendola ( Italian 1848-1887 ) " Maitre Musique".Possibly the last sculpture by this Italian master who died at the age of 39. A superlative bronze cast 1887 .
Dimensions: Total height 21&3/4 inches |
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Maximilian Sandoz (Austrian Circa 1900)"Beethoven" bronze on marble base, signed
Dimensions: Total height 9 &1/2 inches by 4 &3/4 inches wide, height of bronze 7 inches |
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Vincenzo Alfano (Italian 1854-1918) "David". Bronze sculpture signed, dated 1887 and inscribed Napoli. Another identical example was Exhibited in Venice in 1887 and was bought by the National Gallery of Rome for their permanent collection. The sculpture also won The Prix du Concours of Naples 1901. Alfano is recognised as the most important sculptor of The Italian Realist School.
In 1902 he moved to New York and his stone sculptures can be seen on buildings in New York, Coney Island, Maine and also in Philadelphia. Superb quality lost wax casting.
Dimensions: Total height 27 inches. Length of the spectacular sword 14 inches.
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Karel Gabriel (Czech 1884 -?) "Jan Hus" (Czech Philosopher) Bronze cast circa 1910 with dedication. plaque on the marble base.
Dimensions: Total height 24 inches. Height of bronze alone 15 inches. |
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Vienna bronze circa 1910 of "Athena". Light acid brown patina on dark green and grey marble base
Dimensions: Total height 14 &1/2 inches |
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Louis Ernest Barrias (French, 1841-1905) " Mozart" signed, Barbedienne Foundry, gilded bronze Dimensions: 11& 1/2 inches high |
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French bronze circa 1880 of Charmian (Cleopatra's servant)Finely cast bronze,apparently unsigned, on a black Belgian marble base
Dimensions: Total height 21 &1/2 inches
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Laszlo Janos Beszedes (Hungarian 1874 -1922) "Joseph the Slave of Arimathea", Circa 1908, signed, bronze Dimensions: 20 inches high |
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Josef Mullner (Austrian1879-1968) "Kronos and Philyra", monumental bronze sculpture signed and dated 1919. Foundry mark Erzgiesserei A.G. Wein
Dimensions: 37inches in height by 20inches in width by 11&1/2inches in depth |
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Charles Rochet (French 1819-1900) "Raphael Enfant" ( Raphael as a child) . A unique Carrara marble sculpture signed and inscribed "Raphael Enfant" dated 1880
In the courtyard of Notre Dame is a statue of Charles the Great, aka Charlemagne. The inscription reads "Charlemagne et Ses Leydes", which in classical roman lettering is "Charlemagne et Ses Leudes", or Charlemagne and his servants. The statue was created in 1886 by both Louis and Charles Rochet (Both brothers worked on the Charlemagne sculpture.)
Dimensions: 24 & 1/2 inches high
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After Giambologna (Italian 1529 -1608) "Fortuna", 19th century bronze (possibly Italian cast), unsigned, holding a cornucopia full of coins
Dimensions: Total height 35&1/2 inches
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Vienna bronze bust of William Shakespeare circa 1910 .Unsigned and unmarked.
Dimensions:Height 4 &14 inches |
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German circa 1930 "Hercules" unsigned, gilded bronze on anvil shaped marble base Dimensions: 24 7 1/2 inches high total, marble base alone 6 inches high |
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Guyla Donath (Hungarian 1850-1909) "Leukothea" Signed bronze Circa 1900
Dimensions: Height 38 inches by 35 inches in width, base is 12 inches in diameter |
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Karl Fiala (Austrian,1885-?) "Eve and the Serpent", signed, bronze, foundry mark Erzgiesserei Wein
Dimensions: 23 inches high
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