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A French 19th century alabaster statue of ‘La Baigneuse” after a model by Falconet

List: $11,800.00

A most elegant and high quality French 19th century alabaster statue of 'La Baigneuse" after a model by Falconet. The statue titled "the bathing lady" is raised by a circular base with a wonderfully executed ground like design where the... — Read More

  • Item # 9738
  • H: 32.75 in L: 10.5 in D: 14 in

    H: 83 cm L: 27 cm D: 36 cm

  • France
  • 19th Century
  • Marble/Stone
  • Étienne-Maurice Falconet Read More
  • Étienne-Maurice Falconet (1716-1791) is among the highest rank of French Rococo sculptors, whose patron was Mme de Pompadour. Falconet attended l'Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1754. He was appointed as the director of sculpture at the  Manufacture Royale de Porcelaine at Sèvres, until he was invited to Russia by Catherine the Great in 1766. In 1788 he returned to Paris and became director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Many of Falconet's religious works, commissioned for churches, were destroyed at the time of the French Revolution.

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A French 19th century alabaster statue of ‘La Baigneuse” after a model by Falconet