Bronze Aphrodite nymph with shell signature Barbedienne founder

This bronze sculpture representing a nymph with a Borghese shell dates from the 19th century and was made after the sculptor Antoine Coysevox (1640-1720).
The nymph with the Borghese shell was one of the sculptures present in the garden of Versailles on the parterre de Latone, now present in the Louvres.

The sculpture bears the signature of the founder Barbedienne.
Bronze with brown patina.

This bronze statue is present in the museum of Reims.

Dimension:
Height: 13cm
Width : 13cm x 11cm


The Maison Barbedienne is a famous foundry of the XIXth century, which quickly reached a great fame for its editions of statues and objects of art. Although it was a bronze workshop, the company worked with other crafts and associated its name with a wide variety of works, particularly in furniture. Present at all the World Fairs of its time, the Barbedienne company was regularly distinguished by awards, notably at the World Fair of 1855 where it received the Great Medal of Honor.

Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892), a Parisian bronze smith and publisher, founded a company in 1839 in collaboration with Achille Collas, inventor of the process for the mathematical reduction of sculpture. Thanks to this revolutionary process, they opened the doors to an unprecedented production. Under the company name "Collas et Barbedienne", they specialized in reproductions from the antique and developed new chemical processes to color and patinate bronzes. As a good representative of the Romantic generation, Ferdinand Barbedienne took on the mission of democratizing art, making numerous copies of antiques and stimulating the distribution of the works of his contemporaries. Many famous sculptures are thus published by the Barbedienne foundry. Throughout his life, Barbedienne collaborated with the greatest artists, sculptors or ornamentalists of his time like Édouard Lièvre, Ferdinand Levillain, Attarge, Aizelin, Barye or Fremiet.

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