French school around 1893 after Jean-Baptiste PIGALLE (1714- - Lot 137

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French school around 1893 after Jean-Baptiste PIGALLE (1714- - Lot 137
French school around 1893 after Jean-Baptiste PIGALLE (1714-1785). Georges-Martin GUÉRIN, surgeon-major of the King's Camps and Armies, of the "Black Musketeers" and of the Hospital of Charity (1710-1791). Bronze bust with brown patina. H. 76.5 cm. (dusting, slight wear of patina). Related work : Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Georges-Martin Guérin (1710-1791), surgeon-major of the King's Camps and Armies, the "Black Musketeers" and the Hospital of Charity, ca. 1770-1780, bronze bust, H. 55 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. RF 936. Related literature: - Jean-René Gaborit, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785), Sculptures du musée du Louvre, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1985, p. 77. - Louis Réau, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, collection Les Grands sculpteurs, Paris, P. Tisné, 1950. The only other known example, apart from Pigalle's autograph version in the Louvre Museum (inv. RF936), this solemn bust of the Black Musketeer and Surgeon Major Georges-Martin Guérin has remained in the hands of the model's descendants until the present day. The musketeer is represented by Pigalle in the years 1770/1780, decorated with the cordon of the order of Saint-Michel, on an elegant pedestal decorated with an armorial cartouche. In 1893, Count Guérin decided to give the bust of his ancestor to the Louvre Museum. Wishing to keep a trace of it in the family, he had a cast made of it and a beautiful bronze proof. The bust was probably cast in a Parisian workshop and has all the characteristics of a lost-wax casting, melted in a single stream and chased with mastery and precision. It is this replica, dating from the years 1890/95 that we present. Still from the same family provenance, in addition to an engraving representing the illustrious surgeon, a very rare original document is attached, a notarized inventory of the estate of Mr. Guérin dated March 27, 1741. Expert : Cabinet LACROIX-JEANNEST.
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