ROLAND MATHIEU-MEUSNIER | BUST OF FÉLIX HENRI CARVALHO (1854-1925)
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December 11, 11:50 AM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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ROLAND MATHIEU-MEUSNIER
French
1824 - 1876
BUST OF FÉLIX HENRI CARVALHO (1854-1925)
signed and dated: mathieu-meusnier. 1864. and the socle monogrammed: HC
white marble, on a veined yellow marble socle
48cm., 18⅞in. overall
Please note that the present bust is a portrait of Félix Henri Carvalho who was the son of the famous impresario and stage director Léon Carvalho and the soprano Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho. The bust was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1864 and is published by Lami.
Paris, Salon, 1864, no. 2701
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école Française au dix-neuvième siècle, Paris, 1919, p. 413