CARRIER, A

Bacchante Herm with young woman

Terracotta. inscribed "A. Carrier". H 58 cm. 10.69 kg.

Bacchus herm on pedestal, on which a young, unclothed woman sits, offering a sacrificial bowl to the head of Bacchus, a putto seated next to her, gazing with interest into a vessel. Traces of age and use, a few small chips.

If it should be Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, then: French sculptor and draughtsman (1824 Anizy-le-Château -1887 Sèvres), studied from 1840 under Pierre Jean David d'Angers at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, from the 1850s he executed marble works, bronze sculptures and terracotta busts, he was called the "Clodion of the Second Empire" (Claude Michel Clodion, 1738-1814), in 1864 he became friends with the young sculptor Auguste Rodin, and from 1875 to 1887 he was artistic director and head of the studio of the Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres in Sévres.

Provenance : Museum estate of Peter Kaus.

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