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A REGENCY PATINATED BRONZE, ORMOLU AND BLACK
MARBLE INKWELL
CIRCA 1805
Modelled as a draped kneeling woman, flanked by two elonaged inkwells
decorated with grape vines, raised on a base fitted with a cedar-lined drawer,
on bun feet
9 in. (23 cm.) high, 12¡ in. (31.5 cm.) wide, 7 in. (18 cm.) deep
$2,000-4,000
PROVENANCE:
The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.
This inkwell model was created during the Consulat period, most likely by
one of the foremost tastemaker marchands-merciers, such as Lignereux.
At the time, the banker Perregaux is known to have had an inkwell in his
collection at the hôtel de Guimard: un écritoire en racine d'if à figure de
femme à genoux et en bronze tenant deux cornes d'abondance. A virtually
identical inkwell was formerly in the collection of Lord Elgin, one of
Lignereux’s most notable clients, and sold The Property of the 11th Earl of
Elgin and 15th Earl of Kincardine, K.T., Sotheby’s, London, 12 June, 1992, lot
307.
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AFTER THE MODEL BY DAVID D’ANGERS (1788-1856), AFTER CHARLES-ARTHUR BOURGEOIS (FRENCH, 1838–1886)
1837 Charmeur de serpents
A BRONZE FIGURE OF PHILOPOEMEN indistinctly signed ARTHUR BOURGEOIS / Sculpt (to the side of circular base)
Depicted leaning against a draped tree trunk, wearing a helmet and wielding bronze, medium brown patina
a sword, signed David D'Angers to top of base; together with another bronze 22º in. (56.5 cm.) high, 6 in. (15 cm.) diameter
figure of a warrior leaning against a draped column with arms crossed holding
$2,000-3,000
a sword, signed E. Quesnel. to reverse of plinth and incised Foyatier / 1832 to
base of column
13Ω in. (34.5 cm.) high, 5¡ in. (13.5 cm.) wide, 5¬ in. (14.5 cm.) deep (2)
$3,000-5,000
LITERATURE:
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
E. Bowyer, David D'Angers: making the modern monument, New York, 2013, no.
39, p. 100.
J. De Caso, David D'Angers: l'avenir de la mémoire : étude sur l'art signalétique à
l'époque romantique, Paris, 1988. pp. 10-11.
Galerie David d'Angers, Angers, 1984, pp. 20, 24, 63, 119.
The original statue was commissioned by the government of Louis-Philippe
in 1832 and the marble, completed in 1837, was installed in the Jardin des
Tuileries as part of a program of didactic statues. In 1859, it became part
of the Louvre Collection. David d'Angers has captured the Greek General
towards the end of the Battle of Sellasia (222B.C.), illustrating an episode
from Plutarch's Lives. A bronze model of Philopoemen by David d’Angers,
from the Schlossberg Collection, was exhibited as cat. no. 39 at the Frick in
2013.

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