Lot n° 107
Estimation :
4000 - 6000
EUR
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Result
: 59 248EUR
Atelier de Michel Colombe (1430 - Tours 1512), fin du XVe si - Lot 107
Atelier de Michel Colombe (1430 - Tours 1512), fin du XVe siècle
Bust of a holy woman or Virgin
In limestone carved in the round with slight traces of polychromy and gilding.
Height : 44 cm
Plinth (Visible lacks, nose and chin redone, broken head glued back)
This beautiful woman's head, with a soft and melancholic expression, is covered with a fine veil decorated with small embroidered pearls and held in place by a circular clasp. The free hair with wavy strands falls on the bust at the edge of the cloak. She is dressed in a shirt and a leotard enhanced with foliate embroidery; a mantle rests on her right shoulder. The eyes are tapered, the lower eyelid is slightly swollen and the upper eyelid is underlined by a close line.
Stylistic elements can be compared with a work from the production of Michel Colombe or his workshop. This is a marble head of a woman in the Cleveland Museum (inv. 1921.1004), whose headdress is very similar, held in place by a circular brooch. The treatment of the veil is finer and more worked on our model but the hair strands come out and are rolled up in fine braids. The eyes are treated in the same way in these two sculptures, with the lower eyelid slightly inflated giving the eye its shape, the close lines of the upper eyelids create a delimitation of the membrane which concentrates the intensity of the gaze; the eyebrows are just suggested.
Provenance:
Collection J. P.
Bought from M. BING 10, rue Saint Georges, on January 6, 1910.
For his private mansion on the Place Vendôme.
Then by succession.
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