The Toebosch Collection of Important Clocks, Furniture and Good Decorations

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Lot 90
  • 90

ÉMILE-LOUIS PICAULT, 1833-1915, A BRONZE GROUP 'PEGASUS', FRENCH SCHOOL DATED 1888

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Description

finely cast and chiselled, dark and mid brown patina, signed on the base E. Picault / Salon des Beaux Arts 1888

Catalogue Note


LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

P. Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe siècle, Paris 1989, pp. 542-544.


CATALOGUE NOTE

The sculpture 'Pegasus' by Émile Louis Picault is among the various bronzes by his hand that have been exhibited at the Salon in Paris. Many of them have been edited in various sizes by well known founders, for example Colin and Houdebine. The sculpture on sale is a fine, large cast. A smaller cast is illustrated in H. Berman, Bronzes - sculptors & founders 1800-1930, Chicago 1974, p. 789.