Barthélemy-Dominique Hermant

Bacchanal of Children and young Satyrs with a Lion

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September 23, 01:39 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 EUR

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Description

Barthélemy-Dominique Hermant

1730 - 1777

French, circa 1764

Bacchanal of Children and young Satyrs with a Lion

terracotta relief

signed and dated B.D. hermant.1764

42 by 58cm., 16½ by 22⅞in.

Admitted to the Académie de Saint-Luc in May 1758, Barthélemy-Dominique Hermant was mainly active in Saint-Omer, his hometown, where he opened a free school of drawing and sculpture in 1767.

This relief could be an allegory of Autumn, from a series on the Four Seasons, or represent the childhood of Bacchus.

RELATED LITERATURE

S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l’École française au Dix-huitième siècle, I, vol. 3, Paris, 1910, p. 405.

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