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French Painted Terracotta Figure, Late 19th C. browse these categories for related items... All Items: Sculpture: Pre 1900: item #540862
$8,500 for the French Terracotta Figure |
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| This sculpture is a dramatic French painted Terracotta Figure in the Late 19th Century, he is a screaming boy holding a rooster with a toy wagon at his feet. The illusion of emotion and detail of this scuplture is protrayed in the figure and his facial expressions of pain from the rooster claw digging into his skin. H:35" W:16" D:14" LifestyleAntiques.com is an antique dealer in Santa Barbara, California specializing in European antique furniture and antique lighting for your home and garden. Among some of our specialties are home lighting, home furnishings and garden statues. There are several antique shops around our specific area in Summerland, a suburb of Santa Barbara, but none offer the fine selection of antique home furniture, antique lamps, antique chairs, decorative pillows and antique mirrors that we do. We specialize in French furniture as well as antique furniture from Spain and Italy. Looking for that right wall tapestry or pair of console tables or fine art prints? We may have what you are looking for. Among some of our favorite pieces are Murano glass, chaise lounges, lamps, table lamps, floor lamps, and settees. Interior decorating and interior design are both very fun for us. If you’d like us to help with your home interior, please let us know. Not many antique stores offer the selection that we do. Add this with our flexible on-line sales policy incorporated into our client focused, customer service based team and you have an antique shop that we hope you will come back to time and time again. Louis XVI style, also spelled Louis Seize, refers to the visual arts produced in France during the reign (1774–93) of Louis XVI, which was actually both a last phase of Rococo and a first phase of Neoclassicism. The predominant style in architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts was Neoclassicism, a style that had come into its own during the last years of Louis XV's life, chiefly as a reaction to the excesses of the Rococo but partly through the popularity of the excavations at ancient Herculaneum and Pompeii, in Italy, and partly on the basis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's call for “natural” virtue and honest sentiment. One of the most dramatic episodes in the stylistic oscillation from Rococo to Neoclassicism was played out in 1770 at Mme du Barry's Pavillon de Louveciennes. A series of large painted canvases by the Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicting the “Progress of Love” were removed almost as soon as they were installed and replaced with a series commissioned from Joseph-Marie Vien, a Neoclassicist. Vien's pupil Jacques-Louis David was the most important painter of the reign of Louis XVI; his severe compositions recalling the style of the earlier painter Nicolas Poussin are documents extolling republican virtues. During the Revolution, David was a deputy and voted for the execution of the King. The foremost sculptor of the reign of Louis XVI was Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828). He portrayed a number of the most prominent men of his day, often in classical togas. His nude “Diana,” of which there are several versions, attempts to evoke the feeling of the Classical Greek nude. The lavish court style of Louis and Marie Antoinette, his young queen, gave impetus to the highly skilled ébénistes, or cabinetmakers, of the period. Whereas the general style of furniture was again Neoclassic (i.e., straight, simple lines and classical motifs), the workmanship was as complicated and as finely performed as in any period to date. Jean-Henri Riesener and Bernard van Risenburgh were two of the foremost cabinetmakers, filling commissions for Mme du Barry as well as for the Queen. Many of the ébénistes, including Riesener, were German craftsmen who, nevertheless, contributed to the tradition of French furniture. Other makers of luxury items benefited from the excesses of the court, chief among them the porcelain manufactory at Sèvres. | |||||||||||||||
