Refining Taste: Works Selected by Danny Katz

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JACQUES-EDME DUMONT | BUST OF GENERAL MARCEAU

Lot Closed

May 27, 03:12 PM GMT

Estimate

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

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