CARRIER-BELLEUSE, A

Terracotta group: Bacchante with a faun boy

Terracotta. Signed "A. Carrier Belleuse." 32.5 x 34.5 x 18 cm. 4.85 kg.

A reclining, nude woman on an oval pedestal. She is propped up on a fruit basket with her right arm and holds a chalice in her hand, while joyfully reaching with her other hand toward a faun boy who has made himself comfortable on her thigh. Slight signs of age and wear.

If this is by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, then: French sculptor and draftsman (1824, Anizy-le-Château–1887, Sèvres), studied under Pierre Jean David d’Angers at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris beginning in 1840, beginning in the 1850s, he created marble works, bronze sculptures, and terracotta busts; he was known as the “Clodion of the Second Empire” (Claude Michel Clodion, 1738–1814), In 1864, he befriended the young sculptor Auguste Rodin; from 1875 to 1887, he served as artistic director and head of the studio at the Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres in Sèvres.

Provenance: Peter Kaus Museum Estate.