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Here is an article to announce that our bronze sculpture « Rousseau assis foulant aux pieds l’idole du préjugé » (around 1795-1810) by Antoine Denis Chaudet (1763-1810) has entered the Louvre Collection.It is now presented in Richelieu Wing, level 0, room 225. source: Grande Galerie, Le Journal du Louvre – Printemps 2019 n°47

We thought it would be a difficult subject matter but our colored terra cotta portrait bust of Valérie de Woëlmont by Prosper d’Epinay proved to be one of the most popular works of our booth at the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris. In an afterthought we can see why : she’s beautiful, attractive and art...

This beautiful portrait of a monk is painted by the famous Belgian artist Constantin Meunier (1831- 1905). He stayed many times over a period of fifteen years at the famous Cistercian Westmalle Abbey. This introspective painting announces the simplification of the features that we’ll find in his sculptural work later on. It might seem surprising...

We’ve been tempted several times to do an exhibition on children’s portraits, but we were always afraid it would be too « pretty ». Our last week’s acquisition made us think about it again. This bronze portrait relief of a boy is by Agathon Leonard (1841-1923), the Belgian Art Nouveau sculptor mostly known for...
Things tend to come upon us in series… We haven’t been buying much the last two weeks, but by coincidence we came across -in different locations- two works by the Franco-Swiss Romantic sculptor : James Pradier (1790 – 1852). One is a bronze of La Pêche that we had seen exposed in the Musees d’Art...

Paul Manship (1885-1966), one of America’s most famous 20th century sculptors, seems to be somewhat unknown in Europe although many people must know his emblematic sculpture of Prometheus above the fountain in front of Rockefeller Center in New York City. As far as we know, in France only Beaubourg has one example of his work…...