Sculpture bust of a woman, Sylvain Kinsburger, Limoges biscuit porcelain, Art Nouveau, 19th century
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Biscuit porcelain bust (from Limoges) signed S. Kinsburger* representing an elegant young woman with a bouquet of flowers in the neckline of her dress, from the Art Nouveau period, late 19th-early 20th centuries.
This sculpture is in good overall condition. Signed on the back (Limoges stamp artist's signature).
Note: some soiling on the biscuit, scratches and wear from age, see photos.
Sylvain Kinsburger was a French sculptor and medalist. A student of Auguste Dumont and Gabriel-Jules Thomas at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he unsuccessfully attempted several times to win the Prix de Rome. Kinsburger created a cast-iron statue, Le Faucheur (The Reaper), cast around 1900 by the Rongeant foundry in Joinville and erected in the Parc des Grandes Promenades in Wassy (Haute-Marne). His stone sculpture Gouffre (Abyss), created in 1933, adorns the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont in Paris. In 1905, he sculpted the two atlantes in the form of terms supporting the corbel of the entrance to 48 bis rue de Rivoli in Paris, on a façade designed by the architect Garriguenc, which won an award in the City of Paris façade competition that same year. He exhibited a large figure entitled The Courtier at the 1911 Salon. The large plaster cast of his Reverie, acquired by the State at the 1891 Salon, is currently unknown, but was formerly located in the town hall of Villefranche-sur-Saône. A drawing depicting this group is held in the Department of Graphic Arts at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Kinsburger also devoted himself to portraiture. He exhibited several medallions and busts at the Salons of 1878 and 1879. In 1889, he sculpted a marble bust of the anatomist Jacques-Bénigne Winslow, now housed at Paris-Descartes University.
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