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Moses And The Tables - Patinated Bronze Sculpture - Achille Collas - XIXth Century

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" Moses And The Tables - Patinated Bronze Sculpture - Achille Collas - XIXth Century"
Moses and the Tables. after MICHEL-ANGE (XIXth century)
Patinated bronze sculpture, stamp of Achille COLLAS Mechanical reduction according to its process patented in 1855 and indicated by stamp on the back of the bronze H: 42 cm.

Achille Collas (1794 or 1795 - 1859) He is a French engineer, engraver and illustrator, inventor, among other things, of a process for reproducing sculpted objects in reduction, which was very successful.
He continued his engineering studies before joining in 1814, under the First Empire, the technical services of the Grande Armée. When peace returned, he settled down as a tool designer.
He spent the first twenty years of his career inventing various processes applied to engraving, in particular a way of producing by embossing compositions with a relief rendering, from 1825, and which he called the “Collas process”.
One of the first applications is the Treasure of Numismatics and Glyptics, designed by archaeologist Charles Lenormant and painter Paul Delaroche and published from 1831 by Goupil and Rittner, including hundreds of reproductions of medals, coins, engraved stones. and ancient bas-reliefs. The work caused a sensation at the Salon of 1833 and the edition continued until 1850, totaling twenty volumes and 15,000 embossed engravings.
The process is known as far as London, since it was produced there identically from 1838, The Authors of England.

His second invention is by far the most famous because the most durable:
in 1838, he perfected a kind of pantograph improving the "portrait tower" which takes the form of a machine to reproduce any form of sculpture in the round and according to several scales of magnitude. In the process, in 1844, he joined forces with Frédéric Sauvage, another engineer, to protect his invention. He then formed with the art founder Ferdinand Barbedienne, the Collas et Barbedienne Company (Paris), which began to produce and sell quantities of famous sculptures but in small size, in plaster, wood, bronze or ivory. The first object sold is the Venus de Milo, based on the original from the Louvre. For ten years, the company survived, when, promoted during the great London exhibition of 1851, the objects of the Barbedienne foundry received a medal: now the public ordered and sales soared.
In 1855, Achille was again awarded during the exhibition of 1855: his "Mechanical process", name with which he prints all these productions, easily recognizable, is now a sign of quality. After Collas's death in 1859, the company continued to expand: in 1892, Barbedienne had 600 employees, and did not disappear until 19545.

Notes and references
Numismatic and glyptic treasury, or General collection of medals, coins, stones engravings, bas-reliefs, both ancient and modern, the most interesting in terms of art and history, with figures engraved by Henriquel-Dupont, Paris, Rittner and Goupil and Vve Lenormant, 1831-1850, in 20 volumes Henry Fothergill Chorley, The authors of England: A series of medallion portraits of modern literary characters, engraved from the works of British artists, Tilt, 1838, 105 p. (read online [archive]) JG Renis and Antoine-Louis Barye, The founders and editors of the Barye bronzes, Polymath Press, 2007 (ISBN 9780937370025, read online, p. 43 The best known is the “Sauvage process” used by Susse Frères - Reduction (sculpture) [archive], Universal Dictionary of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Hachette, 1896, p. 1414. Giovanni Battista Morgagni, embossed print, A. Collas process (Wellcome Fund). George Washington, bronze bust, Barbedienne foundry & Collas process (Metropolitan Museum of Art.L’email a bien été copié 

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