19th Century European Art
19th Century European Art
Property of a Gentleman
ERNEST BARRIAS | LA NATURE SE DÉVOILANT DEVANT LA SCIENCE (NATURE REVEALING HERSELF TO SCIENCE)
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May 22, 03:43 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
ERNEST BARRIAS
FRENCH
1841 - 1905
LA NATURE SE DÉVOILANT DEVANT LA SCIENCE (NATURE REVEALING HERSELF TO SCIENCE)
signed E. Barrias, stamped P and with the SUSSE FRERES EDITEURS PARIS pastille
bronze, marble, alabaster, lapis lazuli, and porphyry,
the eyes and hair lightly colored, with lapis scarab pinned to her drapery, on fabric-covered wood base
height, including porphyry base 22⅞ in.; 58 cm
Ernest Barrias exhibited the model of La Nature in white marble at the Salon of 1893. This first version was entirely nude apart from the veil which she held over her head. Barrias exhibited the model again in 1899, partly clothed, like the present model, and fashioned out of colored stones, befitting the vogue for chryselephantine sculpture in the Greek style.
RELATED LITERATURE
Fusco and H. W. Janson, The Romantics to Rodin, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980, pp. 118, 120, no. 10