Live Auction 5444Town & Country Perspectives - The Charles Plante Collection
A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE BUSTS OF CHARLES PERCIER AND PIERRE FRANCOIS LEONARD FONTAINE
Lot 381

A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE BUSTS OF CHARLES PERCIER AND PIERRE FRANCOIS LEONARD FONTAINE

CAST AFTER THE MODELS BY LOUIS MESSIDOR LEBON PETITOT, MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed4 June 2008

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GBP 625

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A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE BUSTS OF CHARLES PERCIER AND PIERRE FRANCOIS LEONARD FONTAINE
Cast after the models by Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot, mid-19th century
Each inscribed with the artist's name to the front plinth and the artist's signature and respective dates 1839 and 1846
9 in. (23 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre Francois Leonard Fontaine (1762-1853) were French neo-classical architects, interior decorators and designers. Their close partnership developed the richly grand and archaeological version of neo-classicism recognised as the Directoire and Empire styles. This was translated into a number of books, most notably, Palais, maisons et autres edifices modernes dessines a Rome, Paris, 1798 and Recueil de decorations interieur comprenant tout ce qui a rapport a l'ameublement,, Paris, 1812.