19th Century Furniture, Sculpture, Ceramics and Works of Art Including Property Formerly from the Palacio Ferreyra, Argentina

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Lot 271
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Renzo Colombo 1856-1885 Napoleon 1er French, 19th century

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Renzo Colombo
  • height 23 in.
  • 58.5 cm
bronze, reddish patina, signed and dated R Colombo 1885  and bronze garanti au titre pastille.

Literature

Panzetta, vol. I, p. 94; vol. II, pls. 251 and 252.
 

Catalogue Note

Renzo Colombo, born near Milan, studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Art. After a period working in Rome he returned to his home town of Gallarate where he executed busts, medals and funerary monuments, producing his Tasso Morente in 1878, partially inspired by the Napoleon by Vicenza Vela. Having worked in Genoa and Marsiglia, he was appointed artistic director of the Musee Grevin in Paris in 1884 and began exhibiting at the Salon. His bust of Napoleon was presented there in 1885