19th Century Furniture and Decorative Arts

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Lot 110
  • 110

Alfred-Desiré Lanson French, 1851-1898

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alfred-Desiré Lanson
  • JASON ENLEVANT LA TOISON D'OR
  • signed Lanson Sculpt, inscribed Susse Edt / Paris, and with the Susse Frères foundry seal

     

  • bronze, dark brown patina
  • height 30 in.
  • 76 cm

Literature

Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de L'école Française du XIXième Siècle, Paris, 1912, vol. III, pp.245-246

Catalogue Note

Lanson was awarded the prestigious Prix de Rome for this model in 1876 and it was later exhibited in the Exposition Universelle of 1878. The subject is fairly rare in 19th Century sculpture. Lanson has gathered inspiration from Renaissance models of Perseus, such as Cellini's, and combined it with a contemporary Romantic Realism to powerful effect. The Susse foundry edited the bronze in three sizes, of which this is the second.