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Alexandre Falguiere (1831-1900)

Alexandre Falguiere (1831-1900)

Code: 10577

Dimensions:

H: 17cm (6.7")

£675.00 Approx $851.2, €787.63

Alexandre Falguiere (1831-1900)

Diana 

Height 17cms including base.

Bronze on Sienna marble base.

Signed A Falguiere and with foundry mark of  Thiebaut Freres.

A fine cast with rich brown on black patina.

This bust is taken from the full size version first exhibited in plaster at the salon in 1882 to widespread acclaim, it was to be his most celebrated piece, a marble version is now in the Louvre Paris.  Falaguere editioned this piece through the foundry Thiebaut Freres in Paris, it was available  in three sizes, this being the smallest.

Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière (known as Alexandre Falguière), French sculptor and painter. He was a student of François Jouffroy in Paris at the Ecole de Beaux Arts, then spent the period 1860 to 1867 in Rome.

He first exhibited at the Salon in 1857 with 'The Child Theseu's' and in 1859  and two years later won the Prix de Rome with 'The Wounded Mezance'.

In 1864 whilst in Rome he produced the sculpture 'Victory in the Cockfight', this won him first prize at the Paris Salon. This was a turning point in his career and his sculpture took on a more realist tone. He secured many public commissions including the  'Triumph of the Republic' on the Arc de Triumph.

He was regarded as the successor to Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and the first realist of nineteenth-century French sculpture. His restrained classical, and in most cases female mythological figures - the Diana's, nymphs, and bacchantes - made him extremely popular.

As well as large public sculptures he  sculpted many smaller genre and allegorical works.