Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - Day 2 - 30th June 2022
Lot 574
A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF ULYSSES
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £5800
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Description
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.