Charles-henri-joseph Cordier (1827 - 1905)

CHARLES-HENRI-JOSEPH CORDIER (1827 - 1905) "LOVE ONE ANOTHER" Bronze sculpture, signed and dated: CORDIER 1867

Provenance:
Anonymouos sale, London, Christie's 26 February 1998, lot 357.
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's 14 May 1998, lot 139.

Literature:
Illustrated in the Catalogue Raisonné by Laure de Margerie and Jeannine Durand-Revillon,Facing the Other. Charles Cordier. Ethnographic Sculptor, exh. cat. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City, and Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, 2004, p. 144, no. 7

The present bronze is the same bronze listed in the catalogue raisonné No. 7 as 'Present location unknown', and therefore one of only four known casts of the bronze. This can be ascertained by comparing the darker marks to the base (see photographs) which are clearly the same in the catalogue raisonné and on the present sculpture.