Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse

Lot 288 ALBERT ERNEST CARRIER-BELLEUSE (French 1824-1887) Allegory of Harvest Bronze with dark brown patina Inscribed on base "A. Carrier" Height 16 inches (40.6 cm), overall including marble plinth 17.25 inches (43.8 cm) Estimate: $600 - 900 € 420 - 630

LOT 513 ALBERT-ERNEST CARRIER-BELLEUSE 1824 - 1887 HOMAGE TO PRIAPUS 5,000—8,000 USD measurements height 23 7/8 in.; 60.7 cm Description France circa 1868-1871 signed A CARRIER.B. terracotta PROVENANCE Heim Gallery, London EXHIBITED Washington, New York, Cambridge 1979-1982, no. 97 (illus.); NewYork, 1981, no. 57 CATALOGUE NOTE RELATED LITERATURE Bruton 1979, p.30-1This model of Homage to Priapus is related to Carrier-Belleuse'sfamous 1863 marble of a Bacchante, exhibited at the Salon, boughtfor the Tuileries and now in the Musee d'Orsay. It is a primeexample of the sculptor's admiration of eighteenth century modelsby artists such as Clodion and Marin. A group entitled Offrande a Bacchus which featured in Carrier'ssales in 1874 and 1883 may be identifiable with the presentcomposition, but the same sales also included a Bacchante au terme,a description which equally fits this model.

Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824-1887) Molière Signed "Carrier." in the cast on the reverse l.l., titled on the plinth. Bronze with light brown patina, approximately 10 x 5 x 5 in. (25.4 x 12.7 x 12.7 cm), mounted to a stone plinth. Condition: Surface dust/grime, loose washer beneath plinth.

MEASUREMENTS measurements height 29 3/4 in. alternate measurements 75.5 cm DESCRIPTION signed A. CARRIER. bronze, light brown patina LITERATURE AND REFERENCES J. Hargrove, The Life and Work of Albert Carrier-Belleuse, NewYork and London, 1977, pp. 47-8, pl. 10 CATALOGUE NOTE L'Odine is the heroine of Friederich de la Motte-Fouque's fairyromance. She is a water nymph who transforms into the child of afisherman and later marries a knight. Carrier-Belleuse's model ofL'Odine was blatently inspired by Houdon's terracotta Diana(Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg), and despite the sculpture'snudity it exhibits a modesty relative to many other of hisdepictions of nymphs. He exhibited L'Odine at the Salon of 1864.Hargrove explains that the iconography of a woman amongst therushes came about as Carrier was working on the sculpturalprogramme for the facade of the Casino at Vichy, which included arelief called La Source, depicting a nymph emerging from reeds.

Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse studied under David D'Angers at theEcole de Baux Arts in Paris from 1840 and first exhibited at thesalon in 1851, from 1850 to 1854 he worked in England and was amodeler at the Minton porcelain works, he was one of the mostversatile sculptors of the 19th century, he won medals in TheLegion of Honour, and in the last years of the second Empire heexecuted many public commissions and was highly regarded byNapoleon III who referred to him as 'Our Clodion'