Patinated bronze sculpture "Le Torrent" by Jean-Baptiste Germain

Bronze sculpture model "Ariadne" by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker Beautiful sculpture that shows the goddess of hunting half-naked on a panther, in patinated bronze with a marble bas...

Two-Tone Bronze Sculpture by Georges Recipon Two-tone bronze sculpture depicting a dynamic and sensual female figure seated on golden hardware. The woman, with a shiny silver finish,...

A refined French Art Nouveau bronze sculpture by celebrated sculptor François‑Raoul Larche (1860–1912). The figure depicts a young woman standing barefoot upon a naturalistic base, h...

Falconet was born to a poor family in Paris. He was at first apprenticed to a marble-cutter, but some of his clay and wood figures, with the making of which he occupied his leisure h...

Figure "Memoria" in bronze with brown and green shaded patina signed Emile Louis Picault. It represents a young woman seated, dressed in a drapery,...

Brown patina bronze sculpture depicting Mercury (Hermes), god of commerce, thieves and messenger of the gods, seated on a rock tying his winged heel-piece. He is wearing a petasus, a winged hat, and his caduceus is resting on the ground. This sculpture, based on a model by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, shows a young god, naked and in motion. In a double-swivel position, he prepares to take off. The bronze, resting on a circular stepped base in griotte red marble, is signed on the terrace "Pigalle, 1745". The original of this sculpture was Pigalle's reception piece for the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture on July 30, 1744, which entered the Louvre between 1848 and 1850. Jean-Baptiste Pigalle: The sculptor of the Enlightenment A great French sculptor, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was born in Paris in 1714. He worked on his art from an early age under the guidance of Robert Le Lorrain and later Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. Convinced that his art was the meaning of his life, he returned to Italy in 1734 to perfect his technique. On his return, he began his "Mercure attachant sa talonnière" (1740), which enabled him to enter the Beaux-Arts. His reputation soared among the Parisian aristocracy. Mme de Pompadour took him under her wing, and commissions poured in. Juggling between the Baroque and the Classical, he painted portraits of Diderot and Voltaire, then created the famous funeral monuments...

Henri Godet (French, 1863-1937) "La Reveil de L'Aurore" [The Awakening of Dawn] Patinated Bronze Sculpture, early 20th century, on a circular base with applied plaque "La Reveil de L...

A charming late 19th-century bronze study depicting an Art Nouveau beauty seated upon a tree stump, dressed in loosely fitted attire and drinking from a shell. The sculpture display...