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Lot 34

After Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French, 1834-1904, a French allegorical bronze of Asia from...

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Lot 34

After Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French, 1834-1904, a French allegorical bronze of Asia from...

Starting Bid: £700

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

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After Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French, 1834-1904, a French allegorical bronze of Asia from the monument to Admiral Bruat, early 20th century, the partially draped female figure depicted reclining on a tiger skin with an elephant headdress, with cast signature A. BARTHOLDI, 32.5cm high, 47cm wide, 19cm deep   

Provenance: The George Farrow Collection.



The lacquered gilt surface is worn throughout and is streaky in areas, such as to the torso and arms. There is general surface scratching throughout. The underside has several layers of grog from the casting process. Some white residue underneath the pile of books to the right side. 

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Note: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor and painter renowned for designing the famous Statue of Liberty in New York. The present allegorical figure of Asia is a reduction of one of the four monumental marble statues representing the Quatre parties du monde sculptured by Bartholdi for the monument to Admiral Bruat in Colmar, the artist's native city. 

Bartholdi exhibited the constituent parts of the memorial at the Salon of 1863, and the project as a whole was unveiled in 1864, with the bronze figure of Bruat on a stone pedestal and the continents carved in stone. The original monument was destroyed during the invasion of 1940 and was replaced in 1958, although the stone heads of the reclining figures survive in the Musée Bartholdi, which has a room dedicated to the monument. 

Armand Joseph Bruat (1796-1855) was a distinguished French Admiral. After joining the navy during the height of the Napoleonic Wars in 1811, he fought in the Battle of Navarino in 1827 and was promoted to Commander of the French fleet in the Black Sea during the Crimean war, distinguishing himself in the relief of Kinburn. He died of cholera in 1855 and was honoured as a national hero.

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