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Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
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15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description
- Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
- Le retour des champs (Return from the fields)
- signed: A. CARRIER-BELLEUSE
- terracotta, on ebonised wood socle
Catalogue Note
The present terracotta is notable for the crisp and spontaneous treatment of the surface as well as the lyrical charm of the subject. The model perfectly illustrates Carrier-Belleuse's fascination with an earlier generation of French sculptors working in terracotta, and in particular with the work of Michel Clodion. As Hargrove writes: 'The pastoral innocence of the scene, unburdened by cloying sentimentality, parallels eighteenth-century figurines.' Hargrove illustrates a version of the model which was then in a private collection in Paris, which may be identifiable with the present model.
RELATED LITERATURE
J. Hargrove, The Life and Work of Albert Carrier-Belleuse, New York & London, 1977, p. 250, fig. 234
RELATED LITERATURE
J. Hargrove, The Life and Work of Albert Carrier-Belleuse, New York & London, 1977, p. 250, fig. 234