19th & 20th Century Sculpture

19th & 20th Century Sculpture

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Aimé-Jules Dalou

La baigneuse s’essuyant le pied droit (Bather drying her right foot)

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December 15, 01:23 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

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Aimé-Jules Dalou

French

1838 - 1902

La baigneuse s’essuyant le pied droit (Bather drying her right foot)


signed: DALOU and stamped: CIRE PERDUE A.A. HEBRARD

bronze, rich brown patina, on a veined green and red marble base

bronze: 35cm., 13¾in.

base: 9.5cm., 3¾in.

Dalou was fascinated with the subject of the female nude and worked and re-worked the composition, representing nudes before and after the bath, towelling themselves, standing, seated, taken by surprise or removing their stockings. These intimate figures were the preserve of Dalou's private collectors as they were never exhibited at the Royal Academy or the Salon. This Baigneuse is distinguished by her voluptuous figure and natural ease of movement, and is a particularly fine Hébrard cast.

RELATED LITERATURE
A. Simier, Jules Dalou. Le sculpteur de la République, exh. cat. Petit Palais - Musées des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 2013, p. 384, no. 312