After Louis-Simon Boizot, French (1743-1809) A pair of bronze figural groups of the Rape of Prosperine by Pluto and the Rape of Orithyia by Boreas
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After Louis-Simon Boizot, French (1743-1809)
A pair of bronze figural groups of the Rape of Prosperine by Pluto and the Rape of Orithyia by Boreas
both raised on circular naturalistic bases, Prosperine and Pluto modelled with a pedestal and an up-turned urn, Prosperine clasping a floral garland, bearing the signature Girardon, dark brown patination, Orithyia and Boreas bearing the signature Gaspard Marsy 43cm high and 48cm high (2)
Sold for £1,500 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • These bronzes, erroneously inscribed Girardon and Marsy are after Boizot's figural groups of Prosperine and Pluto and Orithyia and Boreas which were exhibited at the Salon of 1786. Designed as a pair, they were influenced by the earlier marble groups of the same subjects produced by Francois Girardon and Gaspard Marsy, that were commissioned by Colbert in 1674 for the gardens of Versaille.

    The Wallace Collection has reductions in bronze of both Marsy and Girardon's groups, as well as a pair of 18th century bronze models of both Prosperine and Pluto and Orithyia and Boreas after Louis-Simon Boizot.
    Related Literature:
    The French Bronze 1500-1800, M. Knoedler & Co, New York, 1968, 80A and 80B and 25 and 26.

Category: Decorative Arts / European Sculpture and Works of Art

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