Jean-Baptiste Clésinger (French, 1814-1883)

white marble, signed ‘J. Clesinger’, the figure playing cymbals with restored hands and foot, on variegated marble pedestals (4)

Measurements:

height 90 cm; 91 cm (statues); 100 cm (pedestals)

Provenance:

Hordern Family, Private Collection, Sydney

Labels:

In 1952, Jean-Baptiste Clésinger moved to Rome, where he frequented Bertel Thorvaldsen's studio. Inspired by Thorvaldsen's attractive combinations of Neoclassical style with Romantic subject-matter. Clésinger executed the original marble Zingara in 1857.

• EStimate $30,000 - $50,000