Bronzeskulptur "Boreas removing Orithie" Simon Louis Boizot (French, 1743-1809)
Bronzeskulptur
Boreas removing Orithie
Simon Louis Boizot(French, 1743-1809)
19th Century French Bronze raptus casts after Louis-Simon Boizot
Herstellungsdatum unbekannt.
Der Sockelhat einen Durchmesser von ~ 22 cm,
die Gesamthöhe beträgt ~ 50 cm,
Das Gewicht beträgt ~ 11,2 kg
Zustand einwandfrei, wie neu.
"Boreas removing Orithie" symbolizing AIR. French work of the 19th, after the classic versions of Girardon (control of four elements to the pit water Versailles) and the famous mannerist kidnapping (Giambologna) and Baroque (Bernini, Puget).
One representing Boreas and Orithya.
The models were initially conceived for reproduction in biscuit de Sèvres
by the artist and had been exhibited at the Salon of 1786.
Description: "Abduction of Orithia by Boreas", patinated bronze sculpture, 18th/19th century.
This allegory explains the arrival of winter and the return of spring in Greek Mythology.
Condition Report: Appears in good condition.
Boreas abducts Orythie
Bronze, mid-brown patina, cast to show the god of the north wind abducting the daughter of the king of Athens.
Au Salon de 1786, Boizot expose deux groupes d'enlèvements. Cette paire de bronzes constitue une version tardive de ces oeuvres, fondue au XIXème siècle. Issus de la mythologie, les sujets permettent au sculpteur d'élaborer des compositions ambitieuses permises par la présence de deux personnages. La manufacture de Sèvres en diffusa également des versions en biscuit.
Notes: The present bronze groups have been cast after models conceived originally for reproduction in biscuit de Sèvres by Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809), which he exhibited at the Salon of 1786. Boizot drew his inspiration from the earlier models of the same subject by Gaspard Marsy (1628-1681) and François Giradon (1636-1711), designed as garden statues which formed part of a group of twenty-four figures commissioned by King Louis XIV from 1674 on for the Parterre d'Eauat Versailles. Sketches for these statues are being preserved in the Cabinet des desseinsat the Louvre.
Dimensions: 48 and 53cm. high.
Literature: J.G. Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues: Sculpture - Marbles, Terra-Cottas and Bronzes, Carvings in Ivory and Wood, Plaquettes, Medals, Coins, and Wax-Reliefs, London, 1931, pp. 65-66, ills. 50-51.
Knoedler Gallery, Catalogue of the French Bronze 1500-1800, exhib. New York 1968, no. 80a-b.
Similar groups have been sold at Sotheby's London, 9 November 1999, lot 63.