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Aimé-Jules Dalou
Description
- Aimé-Jules Dalou
- La Liseuse (A seated woman reading)
- signed: DALOU, inscribed: Susse Fres Edt Paris. with the Susse pastille and initialled: P
- bronze, rich dark brown patina
Provenance
Condition
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Catalogue Note
The Liseuse is strikingly similar in composition to the Maternal Joy, with the woman seated in the same chair and with the equally skillful modeling of her elegant, flowing robes. With subtle variation to the head and gown, Dalou has focused on a new layout for the arms and inserted a small book in place of the suckling infant. The drapery falls more prominently over the edge of the base and her left leg is raised over the right, in contrast to the Maternal Joy.
RELATED LITERATURE
P. Fusco and H. W. Janson, The Romantics to Rodin. French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections, exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1980, pp. 187-188, no. 86; A. Simier, Jules Dalou, le sculpteur de la République, exh. cat. Petit Palais - Musées des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 2013, pp. 368-369, no. 300