European Sculpture & Works of Art: The Nineteenth Century

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Lot 53
  • 53

Jean-Jacques Pradier, called James Swiss, 1790-1852

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Description

  • Jean-Jacques Pradier, called James
  • PhrynĂ© on a clock base
  • signed: PRADIER, and inscribed: Susse Edr
  • bronze, mid-brown patina on marble and bronze clock base

Catalogue Note

Phyrne was famous in antiquity as the embodiment of female loveliness. According to tradition, she was the inspiration for several of the greatest works of art including the sculptor Praxitele's Aphrodite of Knidos and the Aphrodite Anadymene painted by Apelles. The larger, polychromed marble original of this model made a dazzling impression at the Salon of 1845.

RELATED LITERATURE
Statues de Chair, pp.137-40, no.10