Life-size Plaster Bust With Terracotta Patina - France - 19th Century

A masterpiece of bourgeois elegance, dating from the very end of the 19th century. This is a life-size bust, cast with remarkable fidelity from an originally hand-crafted sculpture. The nobility of the head carriage, the rigor of the costume sculpted down to the smallest details - each lapel, each fold of the bow tie seems animated by its own will. The face with its finely chiseled features embodies the quiet assurance of a notable of the Belle Époque, a neat mustache and a gaze slightly turned towards the horizon, as if suspended between ambition and introspection. In very good condition, this carefully preserved cast shows some slight alterations due to age, silent witnesses to its authenticity and its passage through time. A collector's item, ideal for any enlightened connoisseur, it embodies the refinement of a bygone era, when sculpture was both homage and social representation. It will naturally find its place in an art studio, a wooden library or on the mantelpiece of a bourgeois home. Heavy piece, it weighs 10.5 kg. Dimensions: Length 52 cm (20.5 inches), height 47 cm (18.5 inches), depth 28 cm (11 inches).

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