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 Of all the great sculptors of the second half of the 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux is probably one of the best known and his name evokes in the minds of many a sculpture in bronze, marble or terracotta seen at auction, in a gallery, at Drouot or in a museum.
His beginnings
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was born in 1827 in Valenciennes in a working class family particularly poor. Son and grandson of a mason, he joined early on as an apprentice to a master plasterer, training applicant to know how to draw, is enrolled in the Academy de Peinture, Sculpture et Architecture in Valenciennes. In 1838 he moved to Paris and took courses at the Ecole Gratuite drawing, also called Petite Ecole, until 1843. » More
 Eugène Galien Laloue (1854-1941) is an impressionist painter specializing in paintings of Paris during the Belle Epoque. Very prolific artist, he produced some 5,000 paintings and 1,000 works in oil representing Paris but also landscapes. » More
 Philocale auction house, Matthieu Semont auctioneer, in collaboration with our experts specialized in free valuation and free appraisal sold at auction a French 18th century silver and blue glass jam pot, Tuesday 26th November in Orleans.
Confiturier en argent à cannelures ajourées, cerclé d'un rinceau de laurier formant porte-cuillers, couvercle sommé d'un couple de colombes.
Poinçon R couronné, maître orfèvre JBN, XVIIIe siècle.
Le couvercle poinçonné d'une feuille. » More
 Guillaume Le Floc'h auction house, in Drouot and Saint-Cloud, in collaboration with our experts specialized in free valuation and free appraisal sold atl auction a set of six French Directoire style mahogany armchairs after a model by Georges Jacob in the musée Marmottan in Paris, Sunday 1st March in Saint-Cloud.
Suite de six fauteuils à dossier bandeau en acajou et placage d’acajou mouluré et sculpté, à décor de palmettes à jour, les consoles d’accotoirs en mufle de lion stylisé, reposant sur des pieds antérieurs fuselés, bagués et godronnés et des pieds postérieurs en sabre (légères différences au modèle, petits accidents).
Style Directoire.
Haut. : 95 cm - Larg. : 59 cm - Prof. : 47 cm
On y joint un fauteuil similaire.
D’après un modèle de Georges Jacob, dont un exemplaire est conservé au Musée Marmottan, Paris.
Estimate: 2,500 / 3,000 euros
Sold for 3,500 euros
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 Aguttes auction house, in Drouot, Neuilly-sur-Seine and Lyon, in collaboration with our experts specialized in free valuation and free appraisal sold at auction a French Restauration ormolu and patinated bronze mantel clock, an African is pushing a barrel in which is the dial.
PENDULE 'AU NEGRE POUSSE TONNEAU'
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 Philocale auction house and Matthieu Semont auctioneer, in collaboration with our experts specialized in free valuation and free appraisal sold at auction in Orleans, a French 19th century mahogany and glasses cage clock, the dial signed Lepine.
Pendule cage à quatre glaces en acajou et placage d'acajou, le cadran circulaire en émail blanc à chiffres arabes en noir signé Lépine place des Victoires ceinturé de bronze guilloché et doré.
XIXe siècle » More
 Guillaume Le Floc'h auction house, in Drouot and Saint-Cloud, in collaboration with our experts specialized in free valuation and free appraisal sold at auction in Saint-Cloud, an Omega pink gold and diamonds lady wristwatch.
OMEGA » More
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