"Bronze Sculpture "faun With Kid" Signed Gumery Rome"
Charles-Alfonse GUMERY (1827-1871) Bronze sculpture with brown patina signed on the terrace and located in Rome
Representing a Faun playing with a baby goat.
Circa: 1860
Signed "Gumery, Rome"
Remarkable finesse of the chiseling, beautiful original brown patina.
Slight deformation at the level of the rounded base
A model of this work is kept at the Fabre Museum in Montpellier.
Height 52 cm.
Charles-Alphonse Achille Gumery (1827-1871) is one of the most renowned French sculptors and engravers of the Second Empire. First Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1850. A teacher at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris, Gumery was named a knight of the Legion of Honour on 29 June 1867.
Bibliography
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