Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II

Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II

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Property from a New York Private Collection

Belgian, early 19th century

Archimedes

Auction Closed

January 27, 09:38 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a New York Private Collection

Belgian, early 19th century

Archimedes


with Archimede inscribed on the base

terracotta

height 11 ⅜ in.; 29cm.

with Neal Fiertag, Belgium.

In 1807, Jan Robert Calloigne (1775 - 1830) won the Prix de Rome for his sculpture of Archimedes. The current piece, also depicting the Greek scientist, may well have taken its inspiration from this award-wining work. Calloigne was active in Antwerp and Bruges in the early 19th century. He spent extensive time in Rome, studying the work of his Classical and Renaissance predecessors and honing his own style, while working with another Neoclassical sculptor, Antoine-Denis Chaudet.


A marble sculpture of a seated Madonna and Child by Calloigne is in the Groeninge Museum in Bruges, and, although the subjects differ, the compositions of the two pieces are similar, with both featuring seated figures in a similar attitude with their heads inclined and gazes lowered.


RELATED LITERATURE

S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de L'École Francaise, Au Dix-Neuvième Siècle, Nendeln/Liechtenstein, 1921, p. 244.