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CHARLES-HENRI-JOSEPH CORDIER | Mauresque d'Alger Chantant (Moorish Woman of Algiers singing)

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5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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描述

  • After Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier
  • Mauresque d'Alger Chantant (Moorish Woman of Algiers singing)
  • signed: C. CORDIER.
  • bronze, silvered, gilt, and dark brown patina
  • 43cm., 17in. 

Condition

Overall the condition of the bronze is good, with minor wear and dirt to the surface consistent with age. There is some rubbing to the patina at the high points, notably to the forehead and nose. There is further wear to the patina, including tarnishing or oxidation to the face, and some light surface scratching to the proper right side of the neck and to the proper left cheek. There are a few minor nicks, including one to the forehead.
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拍品資料及來源

La Mauresque d'Alger Chantant was one of thirteen portraits which Cordier, ethnographic sculptor to the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, produced during his mission to Algeria from April to October in 1856. 

The Mauresque d'Alger chantant was exhibited at the Palais de l'Industrie in 1860 alongside other portraits created during Cordier's Algerian sojourn. A descriptive catalogue of the exhibition was written by the critic Marc Trapadoux. Trapadoux was fascinated by the Mauresque chantant and wrote passionately of her vitality: 

'...the transparent colour of her skin is white and rose, her perfumed hair black and shiny, her eyes, blue and limpid, shine with joy, her graceful face reflects an ingenious and vibrant soul. Her entire personality expresses pleasure and surrender. Her mouth half-open like a flower, lets escape a smooth sound, a sort of chirping which swells her neck, lifts her breast and throws back her head...'

The Mauresque d'Alger chantant was one of the most popular of Cordier's models and it was edited in bronze in various sizes. 

RELATED LITERATURE
M. Trapadoux, L'Oeuvre de M. Cordier. Galerie anthropologique et ethnographique pour servir a l'histoire des races, Paris 1860, pp. 11 and 13-14, no. 3; L. de Margerie and E. Papet, Facing the Other. Charles Cordier (1827-1905) Ethnographic Sculptor, exh. cat., Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2004, pp. 188-191, cat. nos. 359-383