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A Rare Silver, Ivory, Gem-set And Porphyre Rouge D'Egypte Model Of La Nature Se Devoilant Devant La Science by 
																	Louis Ernest Barrias

Louis Ernest Barrias

( French, 1841 - 1905 )

A Rare Silver, Ivory, Gem-set And Porphyre Rouge D'Egypte Model Of La Nature Se Devoilant Devant La Science

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Materials:

silver, ivory, emerald, lapis lazulis, red porphyry

Size Notes:

152 oz 4 dwt (4733 grams)

Markings:

signed Barrias and Susse Fres Edt, and struck twice to the shoulder and skirt with maker's mark and French guarantee.

Literature:

Romantics to Rodin, exh.cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980, p.118-120, no. 10 for a similar model.; Pierre Cadet, Susse Frères: 150 Years of Sculpture 1837-1987, Paris 1992, p.52, (for an image of the model in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs)

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