Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887), Workshop of - Lot 164

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Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887), Workshop of - Lot 164
Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887), Workshop of The Offering to Bacchus Terracotta proof Signed AL CARRIER BELLEUSE on the terrace (the foot of the muse is missing, restorations, cracks) Height : 71 cm 71 cm - Width : 32 cm - Depth : 17,5 cm In the 19th century and particularly under the Second Empire, society developed a strong taste for Dionysian subjects imbued with sensuality and voluptuousness. In response, the prolific Carrier-Belleuse executed a number of subjects depicting bacchantes and scenes of offerings to Bacchus. He exhibited a monumental marble group, La Bacchante (H. 180 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, inv. RF 143), at the 1863 Salon, which was a great success and was followed by a large number of later replicas. Here our group includes, in addition to the God and the Bacchante, a charming putto seated on the base of the effigy in terms of the God of Wine who is looking curiously at the bottom of an amphora. This subject testifies to the inspiration found by the statuary known as the "Clodion of the Second Empire" in the work of his famous 18th century predecessor (cf. Claude Michel, known as Clodion, Vestal presenting a young woman at the altar of Pan, terracotta, H. 45,1 cm, Los Angeles, J.P. Getty Museums, n°inv.85.SC.166).
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