Gladiateur mourant
Auction Closed
July 5, 11:37 AM GMT
Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pierre Julien (1731-1804)
French, circa 1778
Gladiateur mourant
terracotta, with traces of a bronzed patina
34 by 27 by 22.5cm., 13½ by 10⅝ by 8⅞in.
Abraham Fontanel (1741-1817), Montpellier, from December 1779;
Anonymous sale including works from the Fontanel collection, Me Chariot, assisted by Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun (1748-1813), Paris, 9 November 1812, lot 128;
there acquired by Alexandre-Joseph Paillet (1743-1814);
Paillet collection auction sale, Me Chariot, assisted by Charles Paillet, Paris, 2 June 1814, lot 92;
Private collection, France
A. Fontanel, Explication des Peintures, Sculptures, Desseins et autres ouvrages de Messieurs de la Société des beaux-arts de la Ville de Montpellier, Montpellier, 1779, p. 37, no. 188;
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l’école française du dix-huitième siècle, t. II, Paris, 1911, pp. 13-14 (for the Paillet sale of 2 June 1814);
H. Stein, 'La société des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier (1779-1787)', in Mélanges offerts à M. Henry Lemonnier, AAF, nouvelle période, t. VII, Paris, 1913, pp. 366 and 402;
M. P. Worley, 'Catalogue of the Works of Pierre Julien', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 112, November 1988, p. 190, n° 17f;
M. P. Worley, Pierre Julien: Sculptor to Queen Marie-Antoinette, New York, 2003, pp. 37-41;
G. Grandjean and G. Scherf (eds), Pierre Julien 1731-1804, exh. cat. musée Crozatier, Puy-en-Velay, 2004, pp. 32-34;
G. Scherf, L’Antiquité rêvée. Innovations et résistances au XVIIIe siècle, exh. cat. musée du Louvre, Paris, 2010, pp. 446-447, no. 150;
M. Hilaire and P. Stépanoff (eds), Le musée avant le musée. La Société des beaux-arts de Montpellier (1779-1787), exh. cat. musée Fabre, Montpellier, 2017, pp. 148-149