Charles Adrien Prosper d'Epinay

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Description

Charles Adrien Prosper d'Epinay
The Poet Sappho
signed and dated: P. d'Epinay / Roma 1873.
white marble

Provenance

Private collection, France

Literature

P. Roux-Foujols, Prosper d'Épinay. Un sculpteur mauricien à la cour des princes, Ile Maurice, 1996

Catalogue Note

Prosper d'Épinay was born in Mauritius in 1836, the son of the prominent lawyer and politician, Adrien d'Épinay. In 1857 he moved to Paris to study caricature under the sculptor Jean-Pierre Dantan, and, from 1861, he worked in Rome for Luigi Amici. A British subject, he worked in London during the 1860's and 70's, and, despite eventually settling in Paris, he continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy in London until as late as 1881.

RELATED LITERATURE
P. Roux-Foujols, Prosper d'Épinay. Un sculpteur mauricien à la cour des princes, Ile Maurice, 1996