Alexandre SchoenewerkA bronze representing a woman sitting and picking up flowers from Alexandre Pierre Schoenewerk (1820-1885). He had a great success during the Second Empire before going insane and killing himself. A pupil of David d'Angers, he will be very influenced by Italy and classical antiquity. He produced numerous busts and statues, contributing to the decoration of the Louvre, the Tuileries, the Hotel de Ville, the Opera. He made "The Young Tarantini" which is now preserved at the Musée d'Orsay, and Emile Zola quipped about this work in his account of the Salon of 1872.
Circa :1850
Dim: W: 11,8 in - D: 7,1in - H: 12,2in.
Dim: L:30cm, P:18cm, H:31cm.
Bibliography: Pierre Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIX° siècle, éditions de l'Amateur, 1989, Paris.
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