Important edition in bronze with brown patina representing "Pegasus carrying the poet to the regions of dreams"also known asApollo on Pegasus"based on a model by Jean Alexandre Falguière. It depicts a beardless, naked young man riding bareback on Pegasus, the winged horse, flying above the globe. The turtle-shell lyre in his left hand indicates that he is a poet. The piece rests on a round base of sea-green marble. The work is signed A.Falguière on the terrace and bears the founder's stamp"FUMIERE". This sculpture is part of the neo-Florentine classicism of the 19th century, with references to the Renaissance, notably to the male figures of sculptor Donatello, and a classical inspiration for the subject.
Jean Alexandre Joseph FALGUIERE (1831-1900) was a French sculptor and pupil of Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse and François Jouffroy. In 1859, he won the first Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture, enabling him to continue his studies at the Villa Médicis. He was then appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he taught a number of artists, most famously Antoine Bourdelle. His reputation won him numerous public commissions for monuments: the monument to Balzac to replace Rodin's rejected one, the monument to Gambetta and the monument to La Fayette now in Washington. Since 1895, the Fumière et Gavignot foundry has been an art foundry working at 32 rue Guersant. It took over from Thiébault & frères, one of the leading bronze casting workshops of the second half of the 19th century. They produced many monumental works for Falguière, including "Apollon sur Pégase".
Circa: 1880
Size of marble base: 40cm x 8 cm
Condition report: In good condition.
Delivery
Europe: 500EUR
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Rest of the world: On quotation
- Reference :
- 3187
- Width :
- 45 (cm)
- Height :
- 84 (cm)
- Depth :
- 71 (cm)
- Period:
- 19century
- Style:
- Classic
- Materials:
- Bronze