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Large brown patina bronze sculpture depicting a nude woman wearing an antique corset advancing the tip of her foot towards the water, according to the sculpture of Etienne-Maurice Falconet (1716-1791) "Bather or Nymph coming down to the bath" the original marble is preserved in the Louvre Museum, mark of the founder "Jules Graux bronzier", XIXth century.
This sculpture is in good condition and is of a remaquable quality. Signature of the bronzer on one side of the base.
A note: some wear and scratches on the bronze, look at the pictures.
* The Nymph was exhibited at the Salon of 1757, when Falconet was commissioned to direct the sculpture at the Manufacture de Sèvres and to wear a more noble kind. It was so successful that it was duplicated by Falconet himself or by other sculptors. Reproduced by many casts, it was as early as 1758 diffused in biscuit. The copy of the Louvre is an autograph rehearsal in marble from the collection of Madame du Barry Louveciennes. Entering the Revolution, the statuette entered the Louvre before 1855.
The success of Falconet in this kind of statuette is astonishing in an austere artist, friend of Diderot, reflecting and writing on his art, to which he assigns a moral purpose. It illustrates the tug of the sculptor between his ambitions and his sponsors. Protected by Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764), the first favorite of Louis XV (sister of the Marquis de Marigny, director of the King's Buildings, and protector of the arts), he inflected his craft to adapt to the requirements of a court sensitive to decorative elegance.
(See site Louvre Museum, Cartel of the work)
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