A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'SAPHO', cast from a model by Emmanuele Villanis, the poetess standing, wearing classical drapery and plucking a lyre held in her left hand, on a square naturalistic base signed E.Villanis and with the founders stamp SOCIETE DES BRONZES DE PARIS and impressed AP725, late 19th early 20th Century

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE ENTITLED 'SAPHO', cast from a model by Emmanuele Villanis, the poetess standing, wearing classical drapery and plucking a lyre held in her left hand, on a square naturalistic base signed E.Villanis and with the founders stamp SOCIETE DES BRONZES DE PARIS and impressed AP725, late 19th early 20th Century
10in. (24.5cm.) wide; 35½in. (90.2cm.) high; 9in. (23cm.) deep

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Born in Lilles of Italian parents, Emmanuele Villanis was perhaps the most prolific sculptor of the late Victorian early Art Nouveau period. In the late 1880s after his initial successes, Villanis shunned the exhibition and Salon circuits. It was said that he became an industry unto himself and that his prolific output of bronzes are what helped keep France solvent during the 1880s and 1890s.
The present figure of Sapho, dating from the turn of the century, is typical of Villanis's style. Sapho's serene and pensive expression, the deep cuts made for her eyes and the artistic scrolling of the subjects name below her face are all characteristic of Villanis's work and distinguish him from his contemporaries.