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Lot 111:
Description
Keywords: NO RESERVE, putti, cherubs, dog, oil on canvas, French school, neoclassical, allegorical scene, sculptural study, monochrome painting, framed painting
Summary:
Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) (attrib) grisaille oil painting on canvas depicting a sculptural bas-relief style composition with putti and a reclining dog beneath a draped covering.
By repute, this work is understood to have been a submission for a sculptural commission later installed over a doorway. Edme Bouchardon was regarded by many contemporaries as one of the greatest sculptors of his century, though his classicizing style was often at odds with the prevailing French taste for Rococo. King Louis XV offered him relatively few commissions, and many of those did not advance beyond the model stage.
After winning the Prix de Rome, Bouchardon spent the years 1723 to 1732 in Rome, where he gained firsthand knowledge of antique sculpture and earned important commissions, including from the pope. In 1732 he received an apartment in the Louvre, though he remained underemployed for much of the following decade. When the Salon was revived in 1737, Bouchardon exhibited both his sculptural models and his celebrated red chalk drawings, which were highly admired by his contemporaries, including François Boucher.
Presents well with age-related wear, expected surface wear, scattered abrasions, and some areas of rubbing visible throughout, consistent with age.)
Measurement: Art: 25 3/4 x 23 1/2 in. (65.4 x 59.7 cm.), Frame: 33 1/2 x 44 1/2 in. (85.1 x 113 cm.) approx
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