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Period: 19th Century
French 19th C Gilt and Patinated Bronze Group of Gloria Victis, by A. Mercie
Located in New York, NY
An Incredible and Large Gilt and Patinated Bronze Group of Gloria Victis, a Winged Figure of Victory with a Fallen Warrior. This incredible bronze piece was cast after a model by Maarius-Jean-Antonin Mercié, This model is signed 'F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR PARIS' demonstrating that it was cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne's foundry, the best bronzier of the 19th century. The base is further signed 'A. Mercie' and stamped 'Réduction Mécanique' with an inscription of '659'. The figure is mounted on a Belgian noir marble base with various stepped edges. Gloria Victis is one the most well-known and important bronze casts of the 19th Century. The quality of this particular model is absolutely incredible and all the marking indicate that this particular piece is one of the finest produced by the Foundry. A student of Jouffroy and de Falguière at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié (1845-1916) won the Grand Prix de Rome at 23 years old with his work Thésée vainqueur du Minotaure. In 1872, he sent the plaster model of his work David vainqueur to the Salon, for which he won the first class medal. At the same time, he received La croix de la Légion d'honneur at the Villa Medici. His return to Paris, in 1874, issued in a long and brilliant career with numerous commissions, notably the monuments for Louis-Philippe and Queen Marie-Amélie for the Royal Chapel at Dreux (1886). By the age of 30 Mercié was already very well-known and his Gloria Victis received resounding success when it was exhibited at the Salon, in 1874 (in plaster) and in 1875 (in bronze). This work exalted the heroism and the patriotic sentiments aroused by the disasters of 1870. His predilection for patriotic subjects is shown in many of his works such as Quand même...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Busts

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Belgian Black Marble, Bronze

Silver Bust of Menelaus King of Sparta Grand Tour
Located in Rochester, NY
19th century silver plate bust Menelaus mythological king of Sparta. A fine casting with rich patina. Ebonized wood base. Illegible hallmark. In Greek mythology, Menelaus was a king ...
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European Grand Tour Antique 19th Century Busts

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Silver Plate

Grégoire Calvet 'French, 1871-1928' 19th Century Marble Sculpture of a Nude Girl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grégoire Calvet (French, 1871-1928) A Fine Late 19th Century Life-Size White Marble Sculpture representing "Peace & Love". The beautifully carved white...
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French Art Nouveau Antique 19th Century Busts

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Carrara Marble, Ormolu

Bust of a Young Woman in Marble and Alabaster
Located in Marseille, FR
Bust of a young woman in marble and alabaster, height 68 cm for a width of 40 cm and a depth of 30 cm. Signed Prof. Besfi. Additional information: Material: Alabaster, Marble & onyx
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Antique 19th Century Busts

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Marble

Carrara Marble Bust of an Elder
Located in Chicago, IL
Carrara marble bust of an elder. Fantastic quality marble and carving.
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Italian Antique 19th Century Busts

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Carrara Marble

Hand-Carved Wooden Temple Sculpture Depicting a Thai Warrior Ready for Battle
Located in Yonkers, NY
A large hand-carved temple sculpture from the 19th century depicting a Thai warrior holding a sword and a trident, with great distressed appearance. Creat...
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Thai Antique 19th Century Busts

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Wood

Ormolu Bust of a 16th Century Prince, by Rancoulet
Located in London, GB
An Ormolu bust of a 16th century Prince, by Rancoulet French, Late 19th Century Height 72cm, width 42cm, depth 22cm Made by the skilled and renowned French artist and sculptor E...
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French Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Busts

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Ormolu

Pair of Antique Orientalist Terracotta Busts
Located in London, GB
Pair of late 19th century Terracotta Busts featuring Orientalist figures, both busts wearing a headscarf and a necklace.
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Austrian Antique 19th Century Busts

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Terracotta

Terracotta Bust of King Louis XV After Lemoyne
Located in New Orleans, LA
Presenting a regal yet approachable portrait of France’s Louis XV, this terracotta bust is modeled after Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne’s sculpture of the king executed in 1757, which now resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This version is executed in meticulous detail, with the king donning his cuirass decorated with the cross of the Holy Ghost and a draper tied under his tie. His head is turned slightly, giving the portrait a more casual, realistic feel, yet there is no mistaking his position of power in this confident portrayal. Louis XV, also called “Louis the Beloved,” ruled as King of France from September 1, 1715 until his death in 1774, succeeding his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until the young Louis...
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Rococo Antique 19th Century Busts

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Terracotta

French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Bronze Bust of Diana the Huntress
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A superb French mid 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze bust of Diana the Huntress, signed HOUDON and SUSSE Frères. The bust is raised by ...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

French 1st Empire Period Dore Bronze Grouping of Lovers, Att. Thomire A Paris
Located in New York, NY
An Exceptional Antique French 1st Empire Period Dore Bronze Grouping of Lovers, Attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire a Paris. Exceptionally cast, hand-chiseled and further burnished and matted with two-tone gold, this dore bronze grouping of two neoclassical lovers is of the upmost quality and craftsmanship. As Pierre-Philippe Thomire is regarded as one of the greatest bronzier's of the late 18th century and early 19th century, this dore bronze piece could only be made by someone with his artistic talents. The lovers are seen with the man seated on a cushioned bench with tasseled...
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French Empire Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

19th Century Italian Roman Vanitas Bust Renaissance Revival Memento Mori Marble
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Masterfully carved & most impressive Italian Vanitas bust in solid marble from late 19th century. White Carrara marble skull combined with a Belgian Bla...
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Italian Renaissance Revival Antique 19th Century Busts

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Belgian Black Marble, Carrara Marble, Marble

'Janotte' Emmanuel Villanis Art Nouveau Bronze Bust, French, 1890
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
Janotte, an Art Nouveau, patinated bronze bust of a young lady with head scarf. Dark brown patination. Set on an integral plinth. Signed Villanis under shoulder. Signed Villanis u...
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French Art Nouveau Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

Italian Bronze Bust of a Court Jester, Signed Antonio Pandiani
Located in New York, NY
A Fabulous and Large Louis XVI Style Patinated Bronze Bust of a Court Jester, Stamped A. PANDIANI.MILANO 1888. Antonio Pandiani did an exceptional job at casting this truly remarkabl...
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Italian Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

Renaissance Girl Bronze Bust
Located in Marseille, FR
Bronze bust of a young girl from the Renaissance, late 19th century, illegible signature, altered patina, 30 cm high, 25 cm wide and 12 cm deep. Additional information: Material:...
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Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

Italian Marble Bust Vanitas / Memento Mori 19th Century Carved Sculpture Italy
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Masterfully carved Italian Vanitas bust in solid marble from late 19th century. White Carrara marble skull combined with a red Rosso Imperiale marble Ro...
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Italian Renaissance Revival Antique 19th Century Busts

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Marble, Carrara Marble

Large and Rare Patinated Bronze Bust of George Washington, by F. Barbedienne
Located in New York, NY
A Large and Rare Patinated Bronze Bust of George Washington, after Houdon by F. Barbedienne Foundry, circa 1870. Very nice quality green patinated bronze bust of President...
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French American Classical Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

Italian Grand Tour Bronze Bust of Caesar
Located in Essex, MA
Bronze bust on yellow marble socle.
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Italian Grand Tour Antique 19th Century Busts

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Marble, Bronze

Child Dressing Mannequin, France
Located in Antwerp, BE
Original child figure mannequin on a wooden fully adjustable stand in a very good original condition, France, 19th century. Beautiful children's mode...
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French Victorian Antique 19th Century Busts

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Wood

Rare Pair of 19th Century Portrait Busts of Caesars Marcus Aurelius and Caracall
Located in Benington, Herts
Wonderful pair of 19th Century Roman Emperor Portrait Busts Representing Marcus Aurelius and Caracalla in Terracotta with Bronze Heads. Italy Naples late 19th / early 20th Century. Life-size busts, the heads cast in bronze with the body of terracotta, modelled with vest without sleeves and toga thrown over one shoulder. Wonderful verdigris patination to the bronze and weathered to the terracotta. Very unusual to have a bronze head coupled with a terracotta body these highly imposing decorative busts are of excellent quality. Depicting the Roman Caesars...
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Italian Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

Large 19th Century Bronze Bust
By Sabatino De Angelis
Located in London, GB
A superb 'Grand Tour' bronze bust, traditionally described as Dionysus (Dionysos), after the original excavated at the Villa of the Papyri in 1754; by the Sabatino and Sons foundry, ...
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Italian Grand Tour Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Bronze and Ormolu Cherub Busts
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze and ormolu cherub bust on their original Coquiller de Bilbao marble ...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze, Ormolu

Antique Vintage Brown Beige Beech Linen Dummy Dressmaker Mannequin 1890, Austria
Located in Vienna, AT
Antique historicsm vintage mannequin tailor´s dummy from beech and linen manufactured circa 1890 Austria. The vintage mannequin shows a circular bas...
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Austrian Antique 19th Century Busts

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Linen, Beech

Mid 19th Century Bronze Bust of Demosthenes Signed "Reduction Sauvage
Located in London, GB
A mid 19th century bronze bust of Demosthenes Signed "Reduction Sauvage. This is based on the marble Roman copy in the Louvre. France. Naturally patinated...
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French Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

Bust of Sir Walter Scott
Located in London, GB
Workshop of Sir Francis Chantrey (1781-1841) A bust of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Statuary marble Measures: 30in. (76cm) high.
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Antique 19th Century Busts

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Statuary Marble

Fine French Terracotta Bust of a Woman with Wreath and Veil, 19th/20th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
This terracotta bust of a woman has some exquisite details. Sculpted in France in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s, our subject has long, straight hair emerging from underneath a hood...
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French Antique 19th Century Busts

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Terracotta

French Bronze Sculpture Bust of a Man by Aimé-Jules Dalou
Located in London, GB
French bronze sculpture bust of a man by Aimé-Jules Dalou French, 1888 Measures: height 49cm, width 20cm, depth 21cm This fine patinated bronze bust b...
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French Antique 19th Century Busts

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Griotte Marble, Bronze

Mid-19th Century Italian Hand Carved Crib Figure Bust
Located in London, GB
Mid-19th century crib figure bust A wonderful example of a mid-19th century Italian hand carved crib figure bust. Glass eyes and original paint still inta...
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Italian Early Victorian Antique 19th Century Busts

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Pine

Terracotta Bust of Benjamin Franklin, After Houdon, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The bust is after the Houdon model done in 1778
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French Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Busts

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Terracotta

19th C. Santos Hand made statue Virgin Mary and child Antiques Los Angeles CA LA
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Mid 19th Century Rare Hand made terracotta Clay “ Santos “ saint Virgin Mary with Child . Typical of Luberon in central Provence in Southern France. Lubéron a favourite destination for French high society and British and American visitors because of the pleasant and picturesque towns and villages, comfortable way of life, agricultural wealth, historical and cultural associations . Haute Provence 1840-1850 compassion and love . Sculptures were often found in homes in the 18th and 19th centuries where they were thought fashionably . In chapels a place of worship that is not a church which belongs to a parish in a village or town but is more private or has a special purpose. Antique religious Statuary , dealer Los Angeles CA West Hollywood La Cienega Melrose ave . This piece would be perfect mounted on a pedestal base, on a side table , in an entrance or foyer , freestanding art piece statement . Very decorative for your interior design in a rustic traditional or even modern design . A great gift idea for the holiday season or a house warming . Vibrant colors wonderful gold and blue colors beautifully painted robe design and finely appointed facial features and hair . The mother holding baby...
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French Antique 19th Century Busts

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Clay, Terracotta, Fabric, Paint, Feathers

Marble Bust by Luca Madrassi
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Marble bust of young woman, presented on an ebonised wooden socle.
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French Antique 19th Century Busts

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Marble

Tall Bust of a Noble French Lady, France 19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Very tall elegant Bust in Patinated plaster, representing a noble French Lady. Pedestal in Light Ivory color. France, 19th Century. 63 cm high 24.80 inches high.  
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French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Busts

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Plaster

Sèvres Biscuit Porcelain and Ormolu Bust of Marie Antoinette after F. Lecomte
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Sèvres (Attributed) biscuit porcelain and ormolu bust of Marie Antoinette after Felix Lecomte (French sculptor 1737-1817) exquisitely cast and modeled, the face in white biscuit porc...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Busts

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Marble, Ormolu

Exceptional 19th Century Bronze Entitled ““Quand Meme” by Mercié and Barbedienne
Located in New York, NY
A Large and Exceptional Late 19th Century Patinated Bronze Figural Group Entitled “Quand Meme” by Mercié and Barbedienne on Pedestal Marius-Jean-Antonin Me...
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French Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

French 19th Century Alabaster Bust of Diana the Huntress
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant French 19th century alabaster bust of Diana the Huntress. The beautiful bust is raised by a circular mottled black Belg...
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French Antique 19th Century Busts

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Alabaster, Belgian Black Marble

Pair Of French Early 19th Century 1st Empire Period Bookends/Busts
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most decorative pair of French early 19th century 1st Empire period patinated wood, giltwood, and faux painted marble bookends/busts. Each bookend is raised by a square mottled bas...
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French Antique 19th Century Busts

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Wood, Giltwood

Antique Portrait Bust, French, Decorative, Female Figure, Victorian, Art Nouveau
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique portrait bust. A French, plaster decorative female figure, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. A fin de siècle Parisian young woman in the Art Nouv...
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French Antique 19th Century Busts

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Plaster

Big Meershaum Pipe Depicting a Woman’s Head with a Hat, Vienna 1880
Located in Milan, IT
Carved meershaum pipe, with amber mouthpiece and nielloed silver band. In the large bowl of the pipe, the head of an African American woman with hearing is depicted, with a wide stra...
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Austrian Antique 19th Century Busts

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Stone, Silver

Marble Bust Signed Bozzoni
Located in Paris, FR
Marble bust signed Bozzoni. 19th Century.
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European Antique 19th Century Busts

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Marble

Late 19th Century Bronze Bust Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Victor Leopold Bruyneel is a Belgian sculptor who was born in 1859. Girl with a Floppy Hat Bronze Figure for Tiffany & Co.
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French Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

French Terracotta Bust of an Officer
Located in Essex, MA
In the Napoleonic style with much later faux marbre plinth.
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European Empire Antique 19th Century Busts

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Terracotta

Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Bronze and Ormolu Cherub Busts
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze and ormolu cherubs busts. Each charming and high quality bust is rai...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze, Ormolu

Bust of Bacchante by Auguste Baptiste Clesinger, Rome, 1857
By Jean Auguste Baptiste Clesinger
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A large bronze bust showing a beautiful young woman depicted as a Bacchante, the Greek Goddess of Wine, her head festooned with grape branches. The bust is supported by an integral bronze plinth that at the back is inscribed with the name of the sculptor, J. Clesinger Rome 1857 dating the bronze to the time when the sculptor was 33 years old. The sculptor whose full name was Jean Auguste Baptiste Clesinger was born in 1813 in Besancon in Southern France. His father, Georges-Philippe, was a sculptor and trained Auguste in art. Auguste first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1843 with a bust of Vicomte Jules de Vaidahon. At the 1847 Salon, he created a sensation with his Woman bitten by a serpent, produced from life-casts from his model Apollonie Sabartier who was a notorious Parisian and the mistress of many perhaps even of Clesinger himself. Later he also produced this bust of her as Bacchante. In private life, the sculptor was awarded one of France’s highest honour, the knight’s cross...
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French Romantic Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

Baroque Revival Patinated Plaster Bust of a Woman, France circa 1870
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A large & finely modelled terracotta-patinated plaster portrait bust of a woman in the 18th manner, shown attired in a lace-edged bodice with ...
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French Baroque Revival Antique 19th Century Busts

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Plaster

Academic Cast Depicting Laoconte Head, Italy, 1880
Located in Milan, IT
Over the wooden black painted base is set the plaster cast of the young head of Laoconte with beard. Cast for drawing teaching in Academy, Italy circa1880.
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Italian Antique 19th Century Busts

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Plaster, Fruitwood

Woman Bust, Alabaster, 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Charming alabaster bust of a young woman. Her head is covered with a small peasant bonnet. On this bonnet, a pretty bow is perfectly sculpted. A few strands of wavy hair are escaping...
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French Antique 19th Century Busts

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Alabaster

Terracotta Bust Signed Lavergne, 19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Terracotta bust by the French artist Adolphe-Jean Lavergne (1852-1901), signed. 19th century.
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French Antique 19th Century Busts

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Terracotta

Classical Plaster Library Bust on Bracket
Located in London, GB
An English classical plaster library bust of a gentleman in Roman clothing, with a wall bracket depicting a Roman eagle. Sir Walter Scott after Chantrey.
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English High Victorian Antique 19th Century Busts

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Plaster

19th Century Bronze Bust of Homer
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century bronze bust of Homer attributed to the attributed to the Chiurazzi Foundry, Naples, Italy. Homer was author of the epic poems the Iliad and the ...
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European Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

19th Century Lifesize Bronze Bust of Othello after Gaston Veuvenot Leroux
By Gaston Vuevenot Leroux
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large and impressive French 19th century life-size bust depicting Othello, the North African Moor of Venice character in the 1603 play written by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), a...
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French Moorish Antique 19th Century Busts

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Bronze

Pair of French Bronze Busts of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Located in New York, NY
PAIR of French (19th Cent) small bronze busts of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on square black marble base.  
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Busts

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Marble, Bronze

19th Century Philanthropist Annie, Lady Jerningham Large Marble Bust W.R.Ingram
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A marble bust on typical waisted circular socle of Philanthropist Annie, Lady Jerningham The bust was carved by R.W.Ingram around the last quarter of the 19th century and we beli...
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English Late Victorian Antique 19th Century Busts

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Marble

Female Bronze Bust Sculpture by Felix Soules, French 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Bronze figural bust of a young woman with a serene expression and stylized hair mounted on a coarse carved oval gray granite block. Bronze is signed lower right. Felix Soules (b.18...
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French Antique 19th Century Busts

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Granite, Bronze

Life-Size 19th Century Carrara Marble Bust of a Roman
Located in Lymington, GB
A dynamic, life-sized marble bust of a Roman in a toga with a leopard’s head clasp, raised on a variegated grey socle. Mid-19th century. This impressive antique bust of an - as yet to be identified - Roman, is in good condition. Some tentative comparisons have been made to Caracalla, also known as Antoninus. Possibly a ''Grand Tour'' item. The Grand Tour was an extended excursion to the Continent undertaken by English gentlemen...
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Antique 19th Century Busts

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Marble

Luca Madrassi
Located in New York, NY
Luca Madrassi (1848-1919) Maternal joys Marble and multicolor H 34 inches Luca Madrassi, although born in Italy, studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and assumed Frenc...
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Italian Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Busts

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Marble

19th Century White Marble Italian Lawyer Portrait Relief
Located in Milan, IT
An oval Italian Carrara marble relief plaque, a 19th century hand-carved marble manly portrait, depicting the lawyer Francesco Rossignoli presiden...
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Italian Antique 19th Century Busts

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Carrara Marble

Pr. 19th Century Meissen Porcelain White Altar Figures of St. James & St. Paul
Located in New York, NY
An Incredible and Quite Rare Pair of 19th Century Meissen Porcelain White Figures of St. James, Brother of St. John The Evangelis...
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German Renaissance Antique 19th Century Busts

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Porcelain

French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Terracotta Bust of a Young Boy Signed Houdon
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming and most decorative French 19th century Louis XVI style terracotta bust of a young boy signed Houdon. The terra cotta bust is raised by an attractive Rosso Levanto circula...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Busts

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Marble

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