Lot Details
Lot 375
Carved Alabaster Allegorical Figure Entitled Un Fleuve (A River)
After Jean-Jacques Caffieri, 19th Century
Modeled as a muscular bearded man wearing a headband formed of reeds and morning glories, seated on a toppled water jug issuing water flowing into a placid pool of water below, signed PAR MR. CAFFIERI 1759. Height 24 1/2 inches.
The original of this model is in the collection of The Louvre Museum, Paris, inventory no. MR 1773. Caffieri became a member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in France in 1757 and presented this sculpture as his reception piece, where it was accepted by the Academy on April 28, 1759. This model had an influence on other 18th century sculptors and was later reproduced in terracotta, hardstone and bronze.
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