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Sculptures

artist

French School

period

circa 1715

materials

Bronze

dimensions

H. 40 - L. 75 - P. 32.6 cm (The Nile); H. 43 - L. 74.6 - P. 32.8 cm (The Tiber)

provenance

Monegasque Collection

French School, circa 1715. Pair of bronzes with brown-red patina. Provenance: - Monegasque Collection Related works: - Imperial Rome, The Nile and The Tiber, marble, dimensions: 165 x 310 x 147 and 222 x 317 x 131 cm, Rome, Vatican Museum, inv. 22838 and Paris, Louvre Museum, inv. dMR356 - Pierre Bourdy and Lorenzo Ottoni, The Nile and the Tiber, between 1685 and 1692, marble, dimensions: 155 x 317 x 132 and 162 x 317 x 132 cm, Paris, Tuileries Garden, inv. MR1765 and MR1964 - Attributed to Corneille van Clève, Allegorical Figures of the Nile and the Tiber, circa 1715, bronzes, dimensions: 38 x 70.5 x 30.2 cm, London, Wallace Collection, Inv. S179 and S180 - France, 17th century, The Nile and the Tiber, bronzes, dimensions: 35.8 x 76.5 x 31.7 and 42 x 74.5 x 32.8 cm, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Skulpturensammlung, Inv. H4 155/046 and H4 143/002 - Attributed to Martin Carlier (circa 1653- after 1700), The Nile and the Tiber, bronzes, dimensions: 35.6 x 76.2 x 32.4 and 42.5 x 74.6 x 33.7 cm, San Marino (California), Huntington Library, Inv. 11.1 and 11.2 - France early 18th century, The Nile and the Tiber, bronzes, dimensions: 36 x 74 x 33 and 42.5 x 74.2 x 32.5 cm, New York, Peter Marino collection. Related literature: - F. Haskell and N.Penny, Pour l'amour de l'antique, la statuaire gréco-romaine et le goût européen, Hachette, Paris, 1988 - M. Knoedler, The French Bronze 1500 to 1800, New York, 1968, n° 29 - A. Maral, F. La Moureyre, François Girardon, 1628-1715 : Le sculpteur de Louis XIV, Paris, Arthena, 2015 ; - F. Souchal, The French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries. The reign of Louis XIV, Oxford, Cassirer éd., 1977 - R. Wenley, French Bronzes in the Wallace collection, London, The trustees of the Wallace Collection, 2002, pp. 38-41 - J. Warren, Beauty and Power. Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino collection, Wallace Collection, London, Wallace Collection, 2010, pp. 166 to 172