CHARLES-HENRI-JOSEPH CORDIER (FRENCH, 1827-1905)

Lot 91
13.07.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 91 | CHARLES-HENRI-JOSEPH CORDIER (FRENCH, 1827-1905)
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£ 15 000 – 20 000
CHARLES-HENRI-JOSEPH CORDIER (FRENCH, 1827-1905)

Arabe de Biscara

signed, inscribed and dated 'CCORDIER/ALGER/1856' (on the right of the base)

bronze, deep brown patina

16 7/8 in. (42.6 cm.) high





Provenance

The artist.

His sale; Foster, London, 8 May 1861, lot 52, as Arab of Bescara.

where purchased by Forces

with Heim Gallery, London, 1978.

Private collection, Spain.

with Shepherd Gallery, New York, where purchased by the present owner, circa 1978.



Literature

C. Cordier, Sculptures ethnographiques, Marbres et bronzes d'apres divers types de races humaines, Paris, 1858, no. 6, illustrated.

É. Cardon and A. Noirot, 'Industrie indigène - Ethnographie,' L'Algérie: agricole, commerciale, industrielle, Paris, 1860, vol. 3, p. 209, no. 2, as Arabe de Biskara, tête en bronze.

A. Andréï, 'Galerie anthropologique et ethnographique de M. Cordier,' L'Art du dix-neuvieme siècle, vol. v, 1860.

E. Saglio, 'Le movement des arts,' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, vol. vii, July 1860, p. 190.

J. Durand-Révillon and E. Papet, 'Catalogue Raisonné,' Facing the Other: Charles Cordier (1827-1905) Ethnographic Sculptor, New York, 2004, p. 145, no. 13, illustrated.

L. de Margerie, 'Works by Charles Cordier Exhibited Between 1848 and 1906,' Facing the Other: Charles Cordier (1827-1905) Ethnographic Sculptor, New York, 2004, p. 230.

A. L. Childs, The Black Exotic: Tradition and Ethnography in Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Art, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 2005, p. 178.



Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l'Industrie, L'œuvre de M. Cordier, 1860, pp. 10-11, no. 2, as Arabe de Biscara, tête en bronze.

London, The Gallery, Ethnographical Gallery of Sculpture by Mr. Cordier illustrating the most prominent types of the human race, February 1861, no. 2, as Arab of Biscara.

Stanford, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, on long-term loan, 2003-2022.



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