Refining Taste: Works Selected by Danny Katz
Refining Taste: Works Selected by Danny Katz
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May 27, 03:12 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
JACQUES-EDME DUMONT
1761-1844
BUST OF GENERAL MARCEAU
inscribed Marceau
terracotta
height: 49cm., 19⅛in.
Executed in Paris, circa 1800.
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Artcurial, Paris, 19 June 2012, lot 67
Augustin Pajou's pupil, Jacques-Edme Dumont became successful during the Empire and was granted numerous official commissions. A series of busts of the Generals of the French Revolution was commissioned by Bonaparte including François Marceau, a young general who died as a hero. Dumont exhibited a plaster bust of Marceau in the 1800 Salon (no. 427), then a marble of the same model in 1801. A terracotta considered being the bozzetto of this model, similar to the present bust, is in the Louvre (inv. no. 2988).
Two plaster casts were commissioned by Louis-Philippe for the Galeries Historiques of Versailles (inv. no. MV 526). Two full-length portraits of Marceau by Dumont are also in the Louvre (inv. no. 2707 & 2711), bozzetti for the sculpture commissioned in 1804 for the Palais du Luxembourg. The present bust, with its sketchy surface, may be one of the artist's early models.
RELATED LITERATURE
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française au dix-huitième siècle, I, Paris, 1910 (reed. 1970), pp. 301-306; G. Hubert, Deux maquettes de Jacques-Edme Dumont, Revue des arts décoratifs, 3, 1951, pp. 181-183