True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha
True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha
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November 20, 10:09 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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CHARLES-HENRI-JOSEPH CORDIER (1827 - 1905) FRENCH, THE FIRST SIGNED AND DATED 1856, THE SECOND CIRCA 1873
Marchand d'Oranges, or Enfant d'Alger (5 ans) and Marchand d'Oranges or Enfant d'Orient
the first signed and dated on the edge of the tunic ALGER 1856 CORDIER
parcel-gilt, polychrome and patinated bronze, marble and onyx with stone bases
with gilt and painted wood Neoclassical style pedestals
heights (without pedestals) 41in.; 104cm; height of pedestals 36 1/2 in.; 93cm
The second:
Mess. Perrin, Royère et Lajeunesse, 27 May 1984 Versailles
Aveline & Cie., Paris 1988
The second:
Pedro Rioux-Maillou, 'M. Cordier et son Christophe Colomb,' in L’ Art, t. V, 1875, p. 410, illus. in a drawing by Valentin after a figure by Cordier
Jeanine Durand Révillon, (research conducted for the Ecole du Louvre), 1980
Jeanine Durand Révillon, 'Un promoteur de la sculpture polychrome sous le Second Empire, Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier (1827-1905)' in Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, session of 6th February 1982, 1984, p. 194
Yves Gairaud, ‘Le semaine dernière en province. De la peinture au mobilier Classique,’ Gazette de l’ hôtel Drouot, no. 22, 1 June 1984, p. 84
Pierre Kjellberg, “les bronzes de collection di xix siècle. 12. Exotisme, mythologie, allégorie,” in Gazette de l’ hôtel Drouot, no. 1, 4 January 1985, p. 30
Laure de Margerie et. al., Charles Cordier: L'autre et L'ailleurs, Paris, Musée d' Orsay, 2004, no. 350 (Catalogue Raisonné no. 181)