19th & 20th Century Sculpture
19th & 20th Century Sculpture
Louis-Ernest Barrias
La nature se dévoilant devant la science (Nature revealing herself to Science)
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December 15, 02:48 PM GMT
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20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Louis-Ernest Barrias
French
1841 - 1905
La nature se dévoilant devant la science (Nature revealing herself to Science)
signed: E. Barrias, inscribed: Susse Fres Edtrs, with the SUSSE FRERES EDITEURS PARIS pastille, and stamped: P J
bronze, silvered and gilt patina
73.5cm., 29in.
Ernest Barrias exhibited the model of La Nature in white marble at the Salon of 1893. This first version was entirely nude apart from the veil which she held over her head. Barrias exhibited the model again in 1899, partly clothed, like the present model, and fashioned out of colored stones, befitting the vogue for chryselephantine sculpture in the Greek style.
RELATED LITERATURE
P. Fusco and H. W. Janson, The Romantics to Rodin, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980, pp. 118, 120, no. 10