Lute player.

"A. Carrier Belleuse."

Terracotta, reddish-orange. 53.5 x 45 x 26 cm. 16.55 kg.

Lute player absorbed in her music, seated on an antique-style bench. Heavily restored; big toe of the right foot broken and glued back together; minor cracks.

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 called the “Clodion of the Second Empire” (Claude Michel Clodion, 1738–1814), In 1864, he became friends with 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.

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