PROSPER D`EPINAY (PORT LOUIS, MAURITIUS 1836-1914 PARIS)

Lot 207
03.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1513589
Lot 207 | PROSPER D'EPINAY (PORT LOUIS, MAURITIUS 1836-1914 PARIS)
Estimate value
£ 18 000 – 25 000
PROSPER D'EPINAY (PORT LOUIS, MAURITIUS 1836-1914 PARIS)
Midsummer Night's Dream
lifesize marble bust of a sleeping woman resting on a cushion; on an integrally carved marble stand, the reverse signed 'P. D'Epinay / Rome', the front inscribed 'MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM'; on a modern painted wood pedestal
21 ¼ x 25 ¼ in. (54 x 54 cm.) high, the marble
54 ¾ in. (139 cm.) high, overall




Provenance

Private collection, Germany, acquired by the present owner in Paris at the beginning of the 1970s.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
C. Vento, Les Peintres de la Femme, Paris, 1888.
L. L'Homme, Le statuaire Prosper d'Epinay, Mauritius, 1890, pp. 37-39.
P. Roux-Foujols, Prosper d'Épinay, un sculpteur mauricien à la cour des princes, Mauritius, 1996.
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