A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF ULYSSES

A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF ULYSSES

AFTER JACQUES BOUSSEAU (FRENCH 1680-1740), 19TH CENTURY

depicting Ulysses standing on a tree stump, stringing his bow, together with an oak and pine octagonal pedestal (2)

figure: 88.4cm high

Catalogue Note

Jacques Bousseau studied at the atelier of Nicolas Coustou in Paris and later at the French Academy in Rome from 1709 to 1712. He became a full Academician of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1715.

The present lot is a bronze version of Ulysses or Ulysses Bending is Bow that was originally carved in marble, completed in around 1715 and that can now be see in the Louvre, Paris.