Lot n° 290
Estimation :
2000 - 3000
EUR
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Result
: 3 000EUR
FRANCE, circa 1900, after François Daujon - Lot 290
FRANCE, circa 1900, after François Daujon
(1759-1809 ?)
Head of Medusa
Plaster medallion
Diam. 51.5 cm
(Accents and restorations)
Reference work :
- François Daujon, Head of Medusa, 1787, bronze medallion, H.
48 x W. 49 x D. 18 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. MR 3377 ;
-François Daujon, Head of Medusa, 1787, bronze medallion, H.
48 x W. 49 x D. 18 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. MR 3378.
Related literature
-Françoise Viatte, Dominique Cordellier, Violaine Jeammet, Masques,
mascarades, mascarons, cat. exp. Paris, Musée du Louvre, June 19-22
September 2014, Milan, Officina Libraria, 2014, model listed
under cat. 67, pp. 229-230.
When the Cimetière des Innocents was abolished in 1787, the fountain was saved from demolition.
was saved from demolition and extensively remodeled. François Daujon was commissioned
François Daujon to sculpt two Medusa-headed masks to adorn the fountain.
the fountain. The artist offered two other examples to Alexandre
Lenoir for the Musée des Monuments Français (inv. 381). These two
are now in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
Like the two mascarons in the Louvre and the proofs published by
workshops of the Réunion des musées nationaux, starting in
1900, our plaster proof has an obstructed mouth, unlike the examples
which let the water through.
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