CHARLES ADRIEN PROSPER D'EPINAY (FRENCH, 1836-1914)

Renowned for his marble figures which subtly reinterpret the masterworks of antiquity with the panache of a modern hand, Charles Adrien Prosper d’Épinay lived and worked between Paris, London and Rome, creating sculptures for royal courts and noble families throughout Europe and beyond. La Ceinture Dorée is a reduction of an eponymous work he showed to great acclaim at the Salon of 1874, created to meet the burgeoning demand from art collectors of the Belle Époque for reductions of celebrated masterworks.