A French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu statue of a beautiful maiden, signed S. Kinsburger

List: $11,800.00

A superb French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu statue of a beautiful maiden, signed S. Kinsburger. The statue is raised by a wonderfully executed terrain designed base, where the lovely lady is standing. She is wearing a charming flowing... — Read More

Item # 10745
H: 25.25 in L: 8.5 in D: 9.5 in
H: 64 cm L: 22 cm D: 24 cm
France
19th Century
Ormolu
Louis XVI st. Read More

(Louis XVI st.) - Also known as Louis Seize, Louis XVI's style is a style of architecture, furniture, decoration, and art created during Louis XVI’s 19-year reign in France, just before the French Revolution. Thought to be a reaction and juxtaposition to the prior more elaborate styles, Louis XVI style developed at the end of the Baroque Period and continued until the birth of French Neoclassicism. King Louis XVI showed little enthusiasm for the old world styles of the Baroque Period and he sought out a create a new “beau ideal” that focused on the purity and grandeur of Ancient Romans and Greeks. Inspired by Ancient Roman architecture and art, distinct features of the Louis XVI style are linear lines, small repeated motifs, floral medallions hanging from ribbons, acanthus leaves, urns, dolphins, ram, and lion heads, and griffins. Greco-Roman elements, often used in earlier and later French styles, were also quick common and included fluted and twisted columns, Caryathids, and corbels.

Sylvain Kinsburger Read More

Sylvain Kinsburger (1885-1935) was a renowned French sculptor. He was a student of Auguste Dumont and Gabriel-Jules Thomas at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Kinsburger exhibited a large figure entitled Le Courtisan at the Salon of 1911. A large plaster of his Dreaming acquired by the Salon of 1891 was formerly at the town hall of Villefranche-sur-Saône. A drawing of this grouping is preserved in the department of graphic arts of the Louvre museum in Paris.

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