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Étienne-Henri Dumaige (French,1830-1888): A patinated bronze Orientalist figural group depicting Cleopatra before Caesar The subject after Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904) image 1
Étienne-Henri Dumaige (French,1830-1888): A patinated bronze Orientalist figural group depicting Cleopatra before Caesar The subject after Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904) image 2
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Étienne-Henri Dumaige (French,1830-1888): A patinated bronze Orientalist figural group depicting Cleopatra before Caesar
The subject after Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904)

Fine Decorative Arts
5 July 2024, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Étienne-Henri Dumaige (French,1830-1888): A patinated bronze Orientalist figural group depicting Cleopatra before Caesar

The subject after Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904)
The standing Queen flanked on one side by her crouching slave and signed to the base H. DUMAIGE, raised on a tapering rectangular rouge de France marble shallow plinth base, 62cm high, 33cm wide, 22.5cm deep overall approximately

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Provenance
Property of a gentleman collector.
Sotheby's New York, 3rd November 2015, lot 51.

The offered lot is a three dimensional interpretation by Dumaige of the moment in Jean-Leon Gérôme's 1866 painting 'Cléopatre et César' where the Egyptian Queen is depicted revealed to Caesar after her servant has smuggled her into the palace within a rolled carpet. An enthusiast of the Orientalist movement, Dumaige studied under the sculptors Augustin Alexandre Dumont (French, 1801-1884) and Jean-Jacques Feuchère (French, 1807-1852) and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais between 1863 to 1886.

Related Literature
P. Kjellberg, Bronzes of the 19th Century: Dictionary of Sculptors, London, 1994, p. 302.

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