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LAURENT HUBERT (FRENCH, D. CIRCA 1780), CIRCA 1753

Lot 203
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ID 1513560
Lot 203 | LAURENT HUBERT (FRENCH, D. CIRCA 1780), CIRCA 1753
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000
LAURENT HUBERT (FRENCH, D. CIRCA 1780), CIRCA 1753
Arria and Paetus
bronze group
20 ½ x 18 in. (52 x 45.7 cm.)




Provenance

Major General Sir Walter Arthur George Burns, North Mymms Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire,
his sale, Christie's London, 24 September 1979, lot 18,
with Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, until 1984,
private collection, United Kingdom,
on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1995-2004,
Sotheby's Paris, 20 April 2012, lot 101.
Pelham: The Public and Private Sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 March 2016, lot 121, (£87,500 price realised).
With Beaumont Nathan, from whom acquired by the present owner in 2016.



Literature

S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'Ecole Française au Dix-huitième Siècle, Paris, 1910, p. 437.
A. Oswald, 'Country houses and gardens, old and new: North Mymms Park - I. Hertfordshire, The seat of Mrs. Walter A.G. Burns', Country Life, LXXV, no. 1931, 20 January 1934.
Sculpture and Works of Art, exh. cat. Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, 1981, no. 9.
Agnew's 1982-1992, London, 1992, p. 186, fig. 171.
P. Sanchez, Dictionnaire des artistes exposant dans les salons des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles à Paris et en province 1673-1800, vol. II, Dijon, 2004, p. 853.



Exhibited

Académie de Saint-Luc, Paris, 1753, no. 47.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1995-2004.
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Sculptures, Sculptures, Statues & Figures
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