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Works of Art du 19th century
Statue of Flora in terracotta after Frémin, 19th century
DIMENSIONS : H. 58.27 .in
MATERIAUX : Terracotta
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?Terra cotta statue representing Flora, goddess of flowers, gardens, spring and fertility.
She is represented as a young woman, wearing a crown of flowers, covered with a drapery, revealing her breasts and covering part of her thighs. She holds in her left hand a festoon of flowers (partly missing) springing from a tree trunk which rests on a square base.
Good state of conservation (small missing pieces and chips).
French work from the 19th century, after the statue by René Frémin kept in the Louvre museum*.
Dimensions :
Base : 42 cm by 42 cm.
Our statue is a copy of the masterpiece of René Frémin, a great French sculptor born in Paris in 1672 and who died in the same city in 1744. The original was commissioned by the direction of the king's buildings in 1706 to decorate the park of the castle of Marly, where it was delivered in 1709. Seized during the revolution, by the Commission des Monuments on August 30th, 1793 and destined for the future great museum, it adorned the Bourbon Palace before finally being sent on Germinal 6, Year 9 (March 27, 1801) to the consular castle of Malmaison, the new residence of Josephine de Beauharnais, where it remained until 1876. It will be given with several sculptures to Barbet de Joy, and attributed to the Louvre on March 9th, 1877 by the administration of domains, where it will be inventoried under the number RF265. A masterpiece of French sculpture, it can still be seen in the Cour Marly of the famous Parisian institution.
Bibliography :
Bresc-Bautier G., La sculpture des jardins de Marly, Edition du Musée du Louvre.
F. Souchal, French sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries, London, 1981, pp. 305-306, n° 14; B. Roscaco, "Les sculptures de Marly sous Louis XIV: influence vénitienne et destinée sous Louis XV," in Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, 2012; G. Gaborit, G. Bresc-Bautier, Sculpture française II -Renaissance et Temps Modernes, vol. 1, Louvre museum, Paris, 1998, p. 385.
