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TWO PARCEL-GILT BRONZE BUSTS OF LOUIS XIV AND THE GRAND CONDÉ

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$ 100 000
Auction dateClassic
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1027437
Lot 34 | TWO PARCEL-GILT BRONZE BUSTS OF LOUIS XIV AND THE GRAND CONDÉ
TWO PARCEL-GILT BRONZE BUSTS OF LOUIS XIV AND THE GRAND CONDÉ

FRENCH, AFTER MODELS ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN WARIN (1604/1606-1672) AND ANTOINE COYSEVOX (1640-1720), FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

Each on a separately cast circular bronze socle

Louis XIV: 28 ¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 34 ¼ in. (87 cm.) high, overall

Grand Condé: 27 ½ in. (70 cm.) high; 33 ¼ in. (84 cm.) high, overall





Provenance

Acquired by Baron James de Rothschild (1792-1868), from the Belgian dealer Van Cuyck.

Grand Hall, in the Château de Ferrières, Seine-et-Marne.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

‘Château de fêtes du temps des crinolines : Ferrières’, Plaisir de France, December 1969, pp. 66-67, no. 373.

P. Prévost-Marcilhacy, Les Rothschild bâtisseurs et mécènes, Paris, 1995, pp. 6, 124.

C. Collard and Melanie Aspey (dir.), Les Rothschild en France au XIXe siècle, exh. cat., Paris, 2012, pp. 130-131.



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'École française sous le règne de Louis XIV, Paris, 1906, pp. 145-146.

G. Keller-Dorian, Antoine Coysevox (1640-1720), Paris, vol. I, 1920, pp. 62-63, pl. 75.

J. G. Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues. Sculpture, London, 1931, pp. 61-62, pl. 40, fig. S163.

H. Demoriane, ‘Stratfield Saye House. Le château que les ducs de Wellington habitent depuis un siècle et demi’, Connaissance des Arts, November 1964, no. 153, pp. 114-116.

J. Bourne, 'Many questions, some answers French furniture in British collections', Country Life, 24 October 1985, p. 1262, fig. 5.

S. Hoog, Musée national du Château de Versailles. Catalogue. Les Sculptures. I - Le musée, Paris/Versailles, 1993, p. 106, no. 398, p. 238, no. 1076 and 1076.

N. Garnier-Pelle, Le Grand Condé. Le rival du Roi-Soleil, Chantilly/Gand, 2016, pp. 120-123.

A. Maral and V. Carpentier-Vanhaverbeke, Antoine Coysevox. Le Sculpteur du Grand Siècle, Paris, 2020, pp. 331-341, fig. 260, 273, 274 and 275, R. 9, 10 and 11, cat. 166 and 224.



The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (château de Ferrières, Grand Hall (‘Sept bustes […] et deux bustes bronzes Louis XIV et Prince de Condé’).
Artist:Charles Antoine Coysevox (1640 - 1720)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze, Gilt-bronze
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Sculptures
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