Étienne-Henry Dumaige

Cleopatra before Caesar, after Jean-Léon Gérôme

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October 20, 08:09 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

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Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Étienne-Henry Dumaige

1830 - 1888

Cleopatra before Caesar, after Jean-Léon Gérôme

signed H. DUMAIGE

bronze on a rouge de France marble base

height of bronze 23 in.; 58.4cm.

base 13 by 8 3/4 by 3 in.; 33 by 22.2 by 7.6cm.

Sotheby's New York, 3 November 2015, lot 51.

P. Kjellberg, Bronzes of the 19th Century: Dictionary of Sculptors, London, 1994, p. 302.

In the present sculpture, Dumaige depicts the pivotal moment from Jean-Leon Gérôme's 1866 painting Cléopatre et César, when Cléopatra is revealed to Caesar after her servant smuggled her into the palace wrapped in a carpet. Dumaige exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1863 to 1886, and he was a student of Augustin Alexandre Dumont and Jean-Jacques Feuchère.