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Aimé-Jules Dalou, French, 1838-1902, a bronze preliminary model for the monument to General...
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Aimé-Jules Dalou, French, 1838-1902, a bronze preliminary model for the monument to General Lazare Hoche in the Varquès gardens, Quiberon, cast by A. A. Hébrard, c.1900, with cast signature DALOU and CIRE PERDUE A. A. HEBRARD cachet, further inscribed M (modele), 39cm high
Provenance: Property of the art historian Francis Haskell, FBA, 1928-2000 and by descent.
Lot Footnotes
Note: Louis Lazare Hoche, 1768-1797 was born in Versailles in 1768 and rose quickly through the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army, becoming a general aged 25. He is considered one of the great figures of the French Revolution and was entrusted with the task of pacifying western France, which was threatened by the Chouan revolt. In 1795 Hoche succeeded in preventing the landing of an emigrant army fleet in the Quiberon peninsula.
The idea of erecting a monument to Hoche was first proposed in 1895 in collaboration with the construction of a chapel to commemorate the halt of the landing of the emigrant army. The commission was given to Dalou in 1900 when he was at the height of his fame: the monumental Triumph of the Republic had just been inaugurated in bronze in the Place de la Nation in Paris, after almost twenty years of work. Although already occupied with the creation of a number of public monuments Dalou accepted this new commission because he considered Hoche to be a founding figure of the Republic. “I want to make a Lazare Hoche which is beautiful like the God of Freedom,” he declared, “I will not make a killer of men with a stern gaze and threatening hand, but a victor resting dreamily on his sabre and as if saddened by the necessity of his bloody triumph”.
However, Dalou did not have time to finish the monument before his death on 15 April 1902, and it was his assistant, sculptor Camille Lefèvre, who completed it and exhibited the statue at the Salon of 1902. The monument was finally inaugurated on 20 July 1902 in Quiberon, Brittany, where it remains in situ.
A comparable bronze sculpture is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number: 1985.310 and a plaster version is in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris .
Francis Haskell was one of the most distinguished and internationally admired art historians of his generation and Professor of Art History at Oxford 1967-1995. His father, Arnold Lionel Haskell, 1903-1980, was a British ballet critic who was a joint founder of the Camargo Society in 1930. He was also influential in the development of the Royal Ballet School, becoming the institution’s director in 1946. Arnold Haskell was also an art collector, acquiring 18th and 19th century sculpture and drawings as well as work by contemporaries such as Jacob Epstein.
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