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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.