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A Fine Pair of Egyptian Figural Bronzes ( 1880 )
| Artists: |
EMILE-LOUIS PICAULT (1833-1915) |
| Dimensions: | 26.00cm wide 83.00cm high 24.00cm deep (10.24 inches wide 32.68 inches high 9.45 inches deep) |
| Description: |
A Fine Pair of Egyptian Figural Bronzes, by Emile-Louis Picault. The figures are intricately cast in traditional Egyptian attire and stand on stepped red and black marble bases. Picault was a student of Louis Royer and exhibited a wide genre of sculpture at the Paris Salon from 1860 to 1909. His Egyptian figures, of Queens and Pharaoh’s and Priests and Priestesses, are amongst his most popular works and follow in the tradition of ethnographic decorative sculpture in France during the late Nineteenth Century and the fashion for Egyptian subjects which followed Napoleon’s campaigns in the Nile delta. The overly ornate head-dresses, complicated pleats and jewellery and accessories echo the romantic ideals of the Belle Époque. Picault was a prolific and commercially successful sculpture. He used many different foundries for his sculptures, all of which were exhibited as bronzes, many being cast by Susse Freres, Houdebine, and Colin. |
| Literature: |
Pierre Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe Siecle, Les Editions de L' Amateur, 1986, p 542-3. Micheal Forrest, Art Bronzes, Schiffer Publications Ltd., Pennsylvania 1988. |
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