Lot n° 590
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Attributed to Jacques Perrin (1847-1915) - Lot 590
Attributed to Jacques Perrin (1847-1915)
Homer, accompanied by his young guide, sings his poetry in a Greek town
Prix de Rome for sculpture, 1875
Large original plaster bas-relief
H. 121 cm - W. 156 cm - D. 27 cm (missing, chipped, restored)
Our plaster bas-relief was created for the Prix de Rome sculpture competition in 1875. It has since remained in private hands. By deduction and stylistic comparison, it is probably the work of Jacques Mamert Perrin.
It was with the subject "Homer, accompanied by his young guide, sings his poetry in a Greek city" that he was awarded the Second
Premier Grand Prix. The first Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture was awarded to Jean-Baptiste Hugues, whose bas-relief is kept at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris (inv. PRS64).
The critics of the time wrote: "[...] The first great prize winner, Mr. Hugues, has done an excellent Homère: he is indeed a blind man, and an inspired blind man, the harmonious old man with the tall, proud features of André Chénier's idyll. Perhaps, in some of his figures, he has pushed the search for strength and character a little too far, to the detriment of elegance. M. Perrin, the second great prizewinner, outshone his rivals, in the judgment of many, by the nobility of his forms and the skilful arrangement of his groups, as much as by the intelligence of his subject." (Le
Correspondant, Paris, 1875, tome 100, pp. 1240-1241).
Jean-Baptiste Hugues and Jacques Perrin were taught by Auguste
Dumont's master, and we can see in both their works a stylistic filiation inherited from the latter. Gustave Michel, Ernest Guilbert and
Alfred Boucher.
Jacques Perrin, born Jacques Mamert Perrin in Lyon in 1847 and died in
Paris in 1915, is best known for his public commissions, such as: La Conscience, 1907, boulevard de Belfort, Amiens; Le
Botteleur, 1888, bronze, in the Maurice-Gardette square in Paris, installed in the square in 1891 (the plaster model was presented at the 1886 Salon, and is now in the Petit Palais); his most famous work is the Monument à Condorcet on the Quai de Conti in
Quai de Conti in Paris. The monument was inaugurated on July 14, 1894, to mark the bicentenary of Condorcet's death. Sent to be cast in 1942 by the Vichy regime, it was restored to its original plaster model in 1989.
Bibliography:
S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française au dixneuvième siècle, Paris, H. Champion, 1914-1921, t. IV, pp.64-65
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