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Bronze Praying Boy from Rhodes (copy)Entry/Object ID
HM-522Description
Classic Roman Youth. Case in three parts:
1. Body
2. Left arm
3. Pedestal base
The Bronze Statue of a Young Man, aka the Praying Boy from Rhodes, (Greece), signed: "F. Barbedienne, Fondeur" on pedestal with medallion and "reduction mecanique"
Ferdinand Barbedienne (French, 1810-1892), was a prolific bronze founder of an important French art foundry.
Original statue, ca. 300 BC, is attributed to Lysippus and is in the Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany.
(Copies also made by Eugene-Paul Benet titled Adorant)
from https://anthonysfineart.com/products/venus-de-milo-by-ferdinand-barbedienne -
Ferdinand Barbedienne (French, 1810-1892), was a prolific bronze founder of one of the most important French art foundries. He pioneered the use of mounts and bronze sculpture, including figures and animals.
Barbedienne produced catalogues of bronze reproductions of Greek and Roman classical sculpture and experimented with champleve and cloisonne enamels during the third quarter of the century. Barbedienne exhibited several pieces of furniture at the 1855 Paris Exhibition including a gilt-bronze mounted oak dressing table and a gilt-bronze mounted ebony veneered bookcase.
The Barbedienne foundry employed up to three hundred skilled labourers, handling the casting of numerous national monuments and architectural schemes. Ferdinand Barbedienne himself also took an active part in the promotion of contemporary sculpture and became one of the founders for David d'Angers' medallions as well as much of Rude's and Mercié's sculpture. His signature varied from hand written capitals to stamp in capitals, usually 'F. Barbedienne, Fondeur' or 'BARBEDIENNE PARIS'.
In 1839 Barbedienne collaborated with the inventor Achille Collas who had succeeded in enlarging and reducing works of art to arbitrary sizes by a simple mathematical calculation, allowing the accurate reduction of classical and contemporary marbles for the purpose of reproduction in bronze. In 1850 Barbedienne was commissioned to furnish the Paris town hall for which he was awarded with the medaille d' honneur at the Paris World Exhibition in 1855.Collection
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsGeneral Notes
Note Type
1965-04-07 Inventory copy 1, p(3) Library, Upper Round BedroomNote Type
1970ca Handwritten Inventory p(1) - Library