A Carrier, Nude, Nymph and Satyr, 19th Century, Bronze

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Important bronze group with a brown patina depicting a young bacchante crowned with vine leaves, holding a ewer, accompanied by … Read more Important bronze group with a brown patina depicting a young bacchante crowned with vine leaves, holding a ewer, accompanied by a young child at the foot of a tree trunk.

the sculpture is signed "a. Carrier" on the base.
albert-ernest carrier-belleuse (1824-1887) was one of the most celebrated and prolific french sculptors of the second empire.
initially trained by goldsmiths and engravers, he studied at the "petite école" (school of decorative arts).
during the second empire, he gained the personal patronage of napoleon iii: the ultimate recognition of his career in the decorative arts, he was appointed director of artistic works at the sèvres porcelain manufactory from 1875 until his death in 1887, where he profoundly modernized porcelain production. At the beginning of his career, he signed his works a carrier, a signature he later changed, around 1868, to carrier-belleuse, to avoid confusion with the painter auguste carrier.

beautiful chiseling, with a very fine rendering of textures (animal hide, details of the grape bunches, drapery). Bronze presented in its original patina with slight wear consistent with age.

height 49 cm

26.5 x 21 cm this piece has an attribution mark,
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