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PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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19TH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL, AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE AUGUSTE CLES…
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304
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19TH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL, AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE AUGUSTE CLES…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
19TH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL, AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE AUGUSTE CLESINGER (1814–1883)
Roman bullfight
TERRACOTTA MODEL
Signed “J Clesinger – Rome 1863”
Dimensions: 40 x 85 x 20 cm
Broken horns, damage and dust accumulation
Provenance: Former collection of Henri Dupuy de
Lôme
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family
Biography l
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armoured frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and Member of Parliament for Morbihan. In 1870, he succeeded in getting sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
Expert in Sculpture & Collections
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