LOT DETAILS

Materials:

patinated bronze

Measurements:

22.60 in. (57.40 cm.) (height) by 13.11 in. (33.30 cm.) (width) by 16.85 in. (42.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed RAOUL LARCHE, numbered 525J and impressed with foundry mark SIOT-PARIS

Literature:

Paul Adam, Le Salons de 1896 - La Sculpture,. Gazette des Beaux-Arts , Paris, 1896, p. 469 (for a description of an earlier model in the 1896 Salon). Pierre Kjellberg,. Les Bronzes Du XIX . Siècle , Paris, 1987, p. 414. Alastair Duncan,. Fin de Siècle Masterpieces from the Silverman Collection , New York, 1989, p. 179 (for a related model). Dominique Renoux, Raoul Larche, Statuaire (1860-1912),. Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français , 1989, pp. 252, fig. 5 (for a related model). . Paris: Belle Époque, 1880-1914 , Essen, 1994, p. 473, fig. 581. Renate Ulmer,. Art Nouveau: Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich , Stuttgart, 1999, p. 71, fig. 56. Victor Arwas,. Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic , London, 2002, p. 224