拍品 43
43
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A FRENCH BRONZE RELIEF OF 'LA PENSÉE', cast from a model by Henri Chapu, the literary muse shown seated, her right arm holding her cloak in an arc above her, a scroll in her left hand and books and quill by her feet, signed H. CHAPU and with Thiebaut, Fumière et Gavignot foundry stamp, mounted on rouge marble moulded support with bronze trim, second half 19th Century

细节
A FRENCH BRONZE RELIEF OF 'LA PENSÉE', cast from a model by Henri Chapu, the literary muse shown seated, her right arm holding her cloak in an arc above her, a scroll in her left hand and books and quill by her feet, signed H. CHAPU and with Thiebaut, Fumière et Gavignot foundry stamp, mounted on rouge marble moulded support with bronze trim, second half 19th Century
16¼ x 9¾in. (41.3 x 24.8cm.)

拍品专文

The present relief is a bronze reduction of the large marble carved for the monument to Comtesse d'Agoult, who wrote under the pen name Daniel Stern. The plaster and marble versions were exhibited at the Salons of 1876 and 1877 respectively; a plaster model is in the Musée du Mée.