Description
Henri-Michel-Antoine CHAPU (1833-1891), after the bust of Ferdinand Barbedienne. Inscribed on the base "A F. Barbedienne Le personnel de son atelier de réduction 1882" Brown patina bronze on a black marble saddle. Signed on the back Ch. C - F. Barbedienne, founder Paris. H. 33 cm After the marble bust commissioned by the staff of his workshop and kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Caen. A similar copy is kept at the MET in New-York, and the model of this bust is also present on Barbedienne's tomb in Père-Lachaise. Bénédicte OTTINGER, Caroline JOUBERT, cat. exp. 'Damoclès. Thomas Couture', coll. L'Œuvre en question n° 6, Caen, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, 2009, p. 26, n° 17, repr. p. 27.
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Henri-Michel-Antoine CHAPU (1833-1891), after the bust of Ferdinand Barbedienne. Inscribed on the base "A F. Barbedienne Le personnel de son atelier de réduction 1882" Brown patina bronze on a black marble saddle. Signed on the back Ch. C - F. Barbedienne, founder Paris. H. 33 cm After the marble bust commissioned by the staff of his workshop and kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Caen. A similar copy is kept at the MET in New-York, and the model of this bust is also present on Barbedienne's tomb in Père-Lachaise. Bénédicte OTTINGER, Caroline JOUBERT, cat. exp. 'Damoclès. Thomas Couture', coll. L'Œuvre en question n° 6, Caen, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, 2009, p. 26, n° 17, repr. p. 27.
