NARCISSUS CONTEMPLATING HIS IMAGE IN THE WATER

Lot 14
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Lot 14 | NARCISSUS CONTEMPLATING HIS IMAGE IN THE WATER
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NARCISSUS CONTEMPLATING HIS IMAGE IN THE WATER

PARIS SCHOOL, MID-18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BY JEAN-BAPTISTE DUPONT

marble; depicted seated on a rocky outcrop from which water cascades, his dog beside him; on a panelled base with fluted volutes and acanthus leaf border, above a bleu turquin marble plinth

23 1/2 in. (60 cm.) high; 29 1/2 in. (74,5 cm.) high, overall





Provenance

Collection of Louis-Antoine Crozat (1699-1770), baron de Thiers, brigadier of the King's armies and Lieutenant General for His Majesty of the Province of Champagne; his sale, Paris, 26 February-27 March 1772, lot 946.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

J. Guiffrey, 'CLIII. Jean-Baptiste Dupont, maître sculpteur, professeur de l’Académie de Saint-Luc, 18 avril 1754, et Alix-Catherine Champtier, sa veuve, 23 décembre 1754', in Nouvelles archives de l’art français, Scellés et inventaires d’artistes (deuxième partie) 1741-1770, Paris, 1884, p. 180-196.

S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-huitième siècle, Paris, 1910, I, p. 311, and II, Paris, 1911, pp. 61 and 250.

L. Réau, Une dynastie de sculpteurs au XVIIIe siècle: Les Lemoyne, Paris, 1927, pp. 54, 140 and 154.

S. Boiron, 'L’hôtel d’Evreux', in La Place Vendôme, Art, pouvoir et fortune, Paris, Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris, 2002, p. 144-153.



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