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HENRI GODET (1863-1937), AFTER WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU FRENCH | Le ravissement de Psyche (The Abduction of Psyche)
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5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
- Le ravissement de Psyche (The Abduction of Psyche)
- bronze, light brown patina
- height 31 in.; 79 cm.
signed and dated W. BOUGUEREAU Ptre / H. GODET Str / Salon des Beaux Arts 1896interior incised 17
Catalogue Note
This bronze is based on the popular painting of the same subject by William Adolphe Bouguereau of 1895. Here, the sculptor successfully translated the weightlessness of the two figures into three dimensions as Cupid seems to lift his lover from the ground. Henri Godet was a pupil of Mathurin Moreau, and exhibited at both the Salon and the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts in the 1890s.