Live Auction 3010The Decorative Arts Sale
A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE 'UNE TROUVAILLE A POMPEI'
Lot 610

A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE 'UNE TROUVAILLE A POMPEI'

NO. 1 CAST BY FUMIERE ET GAVIGNOT, PARIS, FROM THE 1863 MODEL BY HIPPOLYTE MOULIN (1832-1884), LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed3 October 2012

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A FRENCH BRONZE FIGURE 'UNE TROUVAILLE A POMPEI'
NO. 1 CAST BY FUMIERE ET GAVIGNOT, PARIS, FROM THE 1863 MODEL BY HIPPOLYTE MOULIN (1832-1884), LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The circular base inscribed Moulins and Thiébaut Frères Fumière et Gavignot Srs Paris, the underside numbered 3536
97 cm. high

Specialist note

A 183 cm. high cast is in Musée d'Orsay and illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, LES BRONZES DU XIXe SIECLE, Paris, 1989, p. 520. In the same book there is an illustration of one of the pages from the catalogue of Fumière et Cie, successeur de Thiébaut frères showing Trouvaille à Pompei.
In Harold Berman, BRONZES: Sculptors & Founders 1800-1930, Volume 2 , 1994, page 266, the model is described and illustrated.