19th and 20th Century Sculpture
19th and 20th Century Sculpture
Auction Closed
July 10, 03:03 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
PIERRE EUGÈNE EMILE HÉBERT
French
1828 - 1893
BUST OF SEMIRAMIS
signed: ÉMILE. HÉBERT, and titled: SEMIRAMIS
partially gilt bronze, on a red marble base
69cm., 27⅛in. overall
The present model in bronze was first shown in the Salon of 1874 and subsequently, in marble, in 1876.
RELATED LITERATURE
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l’École française au dix-neuvième siècle, Paris, 1916, vol.3, p.143 ; A. Bluhm, The Colour of sculpture 1840-1910, London, 1996, p.194, no.64