The Giordano Collection: Une Vision Muséale Part II

The Giordano Collection: Une Vision Muséale Part II

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Workshop of Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo

Portrait of the General Claude-Jacques Lecourbe

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Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 EUR

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Description

Workshop of Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo (1745-1820), Turin, circa 1800

Portrait of the General Claude-Jacques Lecourbe (1759 - 1815)


limewood relief, on a tinted and ebonised fruit wood background; in a wood frame

inscribed on a cartouche LECOURBE and numbered 37 and 38

23,5 x 21 cm ; 9 ¼ x 8 ¼ in.


 

Sotheby's Paris, 26 June 2019, lot 146.

Sculptor and cabinetmaker of the Royal Family in Turin, Bonzanigo became a master in the art of microscultura. He was frequently commissioned for the Savoy residences: in Turin, Moncalieri, Rivoli and Venaria. In 1787, he was named wood sculptor of Vittorio Amadeo III, King of Sardinia, and in 1817, after the fall of Napoleon, First Sculptor to Victor Emmanuel 1st. Many portraits carved by Bonzanigo are known depicting the Savoy family, Piedmontese aristocracy and members of Napoleon's inner circle. A profile of Napoleon sold by Sotheby's New York, on 31 January 2013, lot 412, is comparable to the present portrait. The latter was probably carved before he was dismissed by Napoleon and exiled in the Jura on 10th September 1805.