Lot 174
  • 174

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux,1827 - 1875 La Rêveuse, fonte réalisée en 1933

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
  • La Rêveuse
  • signé JBte Carpeaux, avec le cachet du fondeur CIRE PERDUE AA HEBRARD et numéroté (6)
  • bronze à patine noire; socle en bois teinté
  • Haut. 19 cm
  • Height 7 1/2 in

Literature

REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES:
M. Poletti, A. Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux sculpteur. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre éditée, Paris, 2003, p. 184-185.
Cat. exp. De Carpeaux à Matisse, La sculpture française de 1850-1914, Lille, 1982, p. 125, n° 42.

Condition

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Catalogue Note

L'esquisse en terre cuite de la Rêveuse figurait à la vente Carpeaux en 1894 (musée des Beaux Arts de Boulogne), le plâtre est conservé au musée du Petit Palais (no.inv.PPS 1606).
L'édition posthume en bronze par le fondeur Hébrard a été limitée à quinze exemplaires, l'épreuve n° 6 est repertoriée dans les archives Hébrard, exécutée en mai 1933.