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Gilded bronze sculpture signed E. Frémiet * representing "The Char de Minerve", with the helmeted goddess holding her shield adorned with an owl and spear, behind her a huge snake, guiding her chariot led by three horses, signed Founder F. Barbedienne **, XIXth century.
This sculpture is in good condition, it is in its own juice and will be cleaned. Signed on the terrace see photos. A plaster sketch of this sculpture dating from 1896 is kept at the Musée d'Orsay.
A note: some dirt and scratches on the gilding, the spear moves a little, wear time, see photos.
is a French sculptor. While having executed patriotic command works in a neoclassical style, he is recognized as an excellent naturalist animal. By his aunt Sophie Frémiet, he is the nephew and pupil of the sculptor François Rude, whose father Louis Frémiet was the master. It is also related to the realistic school. He is famous for his statue of Joan of Arc in Paris and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in Suez. He was the father-in-law of Gabriel Fauré. He devoted himself mainly to animal sculpture and equestrian statues in armor.
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was a French industrialist. He is mainly known for his art reproduction bronze foundry. Son of a modest Norman farmer, he made his first fortune in the wallpapers before joining in 1838 with the mechanic Achille Collas (1795-1859), who had invented a process of reproduction in bronze and smaller scale, of art objects. In 1839, Barbedienne founded the house where he had most of the statues of European museums reproduced in bronze, small enough to decorate modern interiors. His idea was to democratize art, making accessible faithful reproductions of masterpieces. The chosen themes are often allegorical, and draw heavily on the ancient repertoire. Still today, it is quite common to find in the homes "bourgeois" bronzes signed Barbedienne. He applied his methods to the work of the sculptors of his time (Barye, Fremiet, Mene, etc.) and created many models of bronze furniture, enamels, cloisonné, high and low-reliefs in wood and so on. Through the publishing contracts he proposed to them, he contributed to their success by disseminating their works. Being childless, it was his nephew and successor, Gustave Leblanc-Barbedienne, who developed the foundry specializing in monumental bronzes. In France, many memorials to the dead are signed Leblanc-Barbedienne. The quality of the cast iron, the chiselling and the patina, peculiar to the Barbedienne way have made that gradually, the signature of the foundry has gained importance. Notably thanks to Ferdinand Barbedienne, the relationship of sculptor to founder has become analogous to the relationship between the composer and the performer for music. Ferdinand Barbedienne rests in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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