Item Details
Description
Female figure in a flowing robe, dancing, adjusting her sandal. H. 53 cm. Bronze, gilded. Signed: A. Leonard Sclp, foundry mark of Susse Frères Paris, M for Mangenot (chiseler).
Literature:
Böstge/Héran, Agathon Léonard Le geste Art Nouveau, Paris 2003, S. 49-75, esp. p. 60 f., p. 66; Cat. Art Nouveau, Landesmuseum Karlsruhe 1987, no. 4-5; cat. Die Jugendstilsammlung, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, vol. 3, no. 1308, Justus Brinckmann acquired the entire centerpiece executed by Sèvres at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900, the Hamburg Museum also owns two Bossetti of the sash dancers, cat. no. 1307; Cadet, Susse Frères, Paris 1992, p. 195 (Sales cat. from 1905).
Condition
According to Böstge/Heran, only seven copies of the 'Danseuse au Cothurne' were produced.
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