Auction 110 - Tag 3
Fine Art, Ceramics, Metalware & Sculptures
By Auktionshaus Mehlis
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May 27, 2023
Hammerstraße 30, 8523 Plauen, Germany
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This is session 3 of 3 of our 110th auction
featuring over 1300 items in the categories fine art, ceramics, metalware, sculptures and more! Please visit our webpage to find the current session schedule with the respective categories and further information.
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LOT 3506:
After Guillaume Coustou, Cheval de Marly
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Sold for: €220
Start price:
€
80
Buyer's Premium: 27%
VAT: 19%
On commission only
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After Guillaume Coustou, Cheval de Marly
Around 1900, inscribed Coustou on the plinth, dark patinated bronze, reduced version of the sculpture now in the Louvre, which he created between 1740 and 1745 for Louis XV's Château de Marly. extremely decorative depiction of an athletic young man trying to tame with all his strength a wildly rearing, bridled horse saddled with a coat, on a naturalistically worked plinth, h 20 cm. Artist's info: French painter and sculptor (1677-1746), brother of Nicolas Coustou, 1697 winner of the Roman Academy Prize, study trip to Rome, where he worked with Pierre Legros, 1700 return to Paris, 1704 member of the Royal Academy, 1715 he became professor of the Academy and 1833 rector, works by Coustou can be found among others in the Palace Chapel at Versailles and in the Louvre Museum, Source: Wikipedia and Thieme-Becker/Vollmer, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler.
