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Delaplanche, Eugène
1836 Belleville - 1891 Paris.
«Fée aux fleurs» also «Zéphyr».
Bronze, fire-gilt. Signed on the base «Delaplanche» as well as foundry mark «F. Barbedienne, Fondeur».
H 37,5, W 13,5 cm.
After studying art at the École des Beaux-Arts, Delaplanche won the coveted Prix de Rome in 1864 and spent three years studying in the Eternal City. Back in Paris, he consolidated his career and received numerous commissions for sculptures on showpiece buildings there, such as the Opéra Garnier or the Sorbonne. Many of his sculptures were cast in bronze, sometimes in different sizes, in collaboration with the most important bronze founder of the time, Ferdinand Barbedienne.
Literature: Pierre Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle, dictionnaire des sculpteurs, Paris 1989, p. 279 (cf.); Harold Berman, Bronzes, Sculptors and Founders 1800 - 1930, vol. 4, p. 1103, ill. 4415 (cf.).

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