A MONUMENTAL PAIR OF FRENCH MARBLE SPHINXES

Лот 43
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£ 120 000
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Лот 43 | A MONUMENTAL PAIR OF FRENCH MARBLE SPHINXES
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£ 120 000 – 180 000
A MONUMENTAL PAIR OF FRENCH MARBLE SPHINXES

BY FRÉDÉRIC-EUGÈNE PIAT (1827-1903), PARIS, DATED 1873

Each modelled as a seated bare-breasted female figure adorned with jewellery and a turbaned coronet, flanked on either side by upturned wings unfurled above the head, on elongated legs with paw feet, raised on an asymmetrical rocaille and lower rectangular plinth, signed and dated on each base 'E.PIAT SCULP? 1873'

57 1⁄2 in. (146 cm.) high; 37 in. (94 cm.) wide; 22 1⁄2 in. (57 cm.) deep





Provenance

M. Charles Oudart, Paris, 27 December 1875, lots 43 & 44 (3,900 ff).

M. Charles Oudart, Paris, 24 December 1877, lot 23 (4,300 ff).

Anonymous Sale, Paris, 9 June 2004, lot 244.

Private Collection, Paris.



Literature

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, éxposés au palais pes Champs- Élysées, Paris Imprimerie Nationale, 1874, p.473, no. 3097.

N. Paturot, Le Salon de 1874, Paris, 1874, p. 44.

‘Revue mensuelle des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l’Industrie,’ Bulletin de l’union centrale, Paris, 1 September 1874, p. 21.



Exhibited

Salon des Artistes Vivants, Paris, 1874 (no. 3097).

L’Exposition centrale des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l’Industrie, Paris, 1874.







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