Jacques Ange Corbel
Bust of Victor Hugo
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October 19, 05:02 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Jacques Ange Corbel
1853 - 1904
Bust of Victor Hugo
signed: J. A corbel / 1893, and titled: Vtor HUGO
white marble
52 cm., 20½ in.
Paris, Salon, 1893, no. 2720 (possibly)
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de L'école Française, vol. I, Paris, 1914, p. 416 (possibly)
Corbel first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1877 where he immediately won a medal. His last appearance at the Salon was in 1897. He received a state commission for a bust of Gounod for the Paris Opera. The present marble bust is possibly the bust of Victor Hugo exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1893 (no. 2720, op. cit. p. 416).