A Patinated Bronze Figural Torchère Cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne

A Patinated Bronze Figural Torchère Cast by Barbedienne, after the Model by Alexandre Falguière.  

Signed to the bronze base  ‘FALGUIERE’ and inscribed ‘F. BARBEDIENNE. FONDEUR’.  With serial number WB 96762 . 

Barbedienne illustrates a drawing of this torchères on page 63 of his 1886 catalogue ‘Bronzes D’ Art’. It is listed as ‘Porte-Lumière, style Renaissance’ also indicating that it was modelled by Falguière; a companion piece also available modelled by Paul Dubois.

The original model of the present bronze was delivered by the artist to Ferdinand Barbedienne in 1867, and the two entered into a contract for the production rights. However it was not until 1876 that the Renaissance-revival figure was produced by the fondeur. Having previously contracted a very similar model by the artist Paul Dubois (1829-1905), Bardienne decided to pair the two, adapting them into torchères, and offering them in four different scaled versions. A successful model, the firm continued production of Deux femmes debout, style Renaissance until 1911 (see F. Rionnet, Les Bronzes Barbedienne: L'oeuvre d'une dynastie de fondeurs, Paris, 2016, p. 447). An example of the singular Falguière torchère is in the musée national du château de Compiègne.

French, Circa 1880.
 

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