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François Rude
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description
- François Rude
- Tête de la Marseillaise
- bronze, brown patina
Signed F. RUDE, numbered 596K and with the foundry mark SIOT PARIS - Haut. 47 cm; height 18 1/2 in.
bronze à patine brune
signé F. RUDE, marqué du fondeur Siot Paris et numéroté 596K
signé F. RUDE, marqué du fondeur Siot Paris et numéroté 596K
Catalogue Note
The Head of the Genius of Liberty is a detail from François Rude’s celebrated relief of the Departure of the Volunteers on the Arc de Triomphe in the center of the Place de l’Etoile, in Paris. In the relief, the winged allegorical figure of Liberty rallies the men who surround her with a battle cry. Rude’s wife Sophie reportedly posed for the figure. When she tired the sculptor would shout “Cry louder!” in order to recover the enraged expression.
RELATED LITERATURE
P. Fusco, H.W. Janson, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections, New York, 1982, pp. 352-3, fig. 211.