European Sculpture & Works of Art: The Nineteenth Century

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Lot 78
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Adèle d'Affry, Duchess Castiglione-Colonna, called Marcello French, 1836-1879

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Description

  • Adèle d'Affry, Duchess Castiglione-Colonna, called Marcello
  • A bust of Mme. Rodocanachi as Medje
  • signed: Marcello and numbered 3893
  • bronze, rich dark brown patina
  • 24kg., 52.9lb.

Catalogue Note

Adèle d'Affry was the daughter of the Swiss Count, Louis d'Affry, and the husband of Carlo Colonna, Duke of Castiglione, whom she met in Italy, having moved to Rome in 1854. When her husband tragically died, only eight months after their marriage in 1856, Adèle launched herself into a career as a sculptor, taking on the pseudonym 'Marcello'. The 72cm. plaster version of Medje is in the Fondation Marcello in Fribourg and the signed marble is in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in the same city, her birthplace.

RELATED LITERATURE
Romantics to Rodin pp.299-300; Bessis, pp.153-59; Marcello, exh.cat., 1980