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Jean Jacques PRADIER (1790-1852). Sapho with the column. Large statuette in silvered bronze and gilded bronze. Signed, dated 1848 and mark of the founder Victor Paillard. Height : 46 cm. Victor Paillard, bronzier and sculptor born in 1805, collaborator of Barbedienne, created his company in 1830. He exhibited regularly at the Salons and was a member of the jury of the Universal Exhibition of 1855. He was in charge of decorating the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Quai d'Orsay. He was also the official supplier of Balzac who wrote "Victor Paillard, the bronze worker who is the Froment-Meurice of bronze ....". He died in 1886. Provenance : Sotheby's London, September 29, 1999 n° 112
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Jean Jacques PRADIER (1790-1852). Sapho with the column. Large statuette in silvered bronze and gilded bronze. Signed, dated 1848 and mark of the founder Victor Paillard. Height : 46 cm. Victor Paillard, bronzier and sculptor born in 1805, collaborator of Barbedienne, created his company in 1830. He exhibited regularly at the Salons and was a member of the jury of the Universal Exhibition of 1855. He was in charge of decorating the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Quai d'Orsay. He was also the official supplier of Balzac who wrote "Victor Paillard, the bronze worker who is the Froment-Meurice of bronze ....". He died in 1886. Provenance : Sotheby's London, September 29, 1999 n° 112
