Alexis François THOMAS (1795-1875) Bacchante on a lion skin Original terracotta sketch. Signed A. F Thomas on the back of the base. Damage and restoration. H. 22 cm Related literature:? Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française au XIXe siècle, Paris, 1921, reprinted by Kraus Reprint, 1970, vol. IV, p. 301. A pupil of Louis-Pierre Deseine and Emmanuel Dupaty, Alexis François Thomas exhibited at the Salon between 1833 and 1859. Our sketch may be a preparatory study for the marble statue entitled L'Odalisque, acquired by the Société des amis des arts de Valenciennes.

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