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Carl Ernst von Stetten (German, 1857-1942) Italians in Paris image 1
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Lot 34*,TP

Carl Ernst von Stetten
(German, 1857-1942)
Italians in Paris

24 September 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Carl Ernst von Stetten (German, 1857-1942)

Italians in Paris
signed, inscribed and dated 'C. von Stetten - Paris 1888.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
160.6 x 103.4cm (63 1/4 x 40 11/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 23 October 2007, lot 102.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 1 February 2019, lot 585.
Property of a gentleman (acquired from the above sale).

Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1888, no. 2491.
Munich, Internationalen Kunstaustellung, 1888, no. 2232.
Chicago, World's Columbian Exposition, no. 121.
Dresden, Akademiesche Kunst-Ausstellung, 1894, no. 469.
Berlin, Berliner Kunst-Ausstellung, 1894, no. 2999.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Art Galleries, no. 62.

In the present work, Von Stetten depicts two mouleurs de plâtres on a bridge over the Seine, clad in white artist's smocks and displaying their wares. In the background we see a cast of Jean-Antoine Houdon's Winter, 1787 (on the right), a plaster cast after the bronze statue of Narcissus held in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum, Naples (in the centre), and a cast of a Tanagra terracotta figure (on the left). A painter of portraits and genre, Von Stetten was a Bavarian but worked in the atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme in the 1880s. He became close friends with his fellow artists Pascale Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret and Gustave Courtois.

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