Master Sculpture and Works of Art Part II
Master Sculpture and Works of Art Part II
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Washington, D.C.
Jean-Jacques Pradier, known as James Pradier
Standing Satyr and Bacchante
Lot Closed
January 30, 08:50 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jean-Jacques Pradier, known as James Pradier (Geneva 1790 - 1852 Bougival)
French, circa 1847
Standing Satyr and Bacchante
signed: J PRADIER and inscribed: DUPLAN ET SALLES FONDEUR
bronze, with later painted wood base
height of bronze 24in.; 61cm.
Private Collection, New Orleans, Louisiana;
Christie's New York, 1 March 1980, lot 157;
Pegasus Fine Arts, New York;
From whom acquired in 1987
This is a rare model by Pradier, with a foundry mark, and is listed in the Catalogue Raisonné by Claude Lapaire under no. 308. There is a plaster model of this composition in the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva and another bronze version in a Parisian private collection. The model was reproduced by Marchi in plaster and terracotta.
Born in Geneva, Pradier left for Paris in 1807 to work with his elder brother, an engraver. He won the Prix de Rome that enabled him to study in the Villa Medici from 1814 to 1818. He later studied under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in Paris and in 1827 became a member of the Académie des beaux-arts and a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts.
RELATED LITERATURE
Statues de Chair, Sculptures de James Pradier, exhibition catalogue, Switzerland 1985, p. 397, no. 279 (plaster, illus.)