European Sculpture & Works of Art 900-1900

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Lot 142
  • 142

Auguste-Joseph Peiffer French, 1832-1886

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Description

  • Auguste-Joseph Peiffer
  • Les Hirondelles (A seated nymph with two swallows)
  • signed: PEIFFER

  • white marble

Catalogue Note

A pupil of Klagmann, Peiffer made his debut at the Salon in 1865. During the following decade he created some elegant models, of which the Hirondelles is the best known. The Susse foundry obtained the rights to edit it as both a figure and a bust.