APRIL FINE ESTATES, ART & STERLING SILVER
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Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (french, 1824-1887) Antique 19th c bronze Young Lady with Flowers. Signed and with seal. Weighs 9 lbs 2 oz. and measures 13.5" x 4" x 6". Provenance: Gippy Plantation, Avenue of Oaks, Berkeley County, SC. Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (born Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse was a French sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Soci?t? Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and was made an officer of the Legion of Honour. His name is perhaps best known because Auguste Rodin worked as his assistant between 1864 and 1870. The two travelled to Brussels in 1871, and by some accounts Rodin assisted Carrier-Belleuse’s architectural sculpture for the Brussels Stock Exchange.Carrier-Belleuse made many terracotta pieces, the most famous of which may be The Abduction of Hippodameia depicting the Greek mythological scene of a centaur kidnapping Hippodameia on her wedding day. He was also made artistic director at the Manufacture nationale de Sevres in 1876.
Condition: good
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