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Sculpture in bronze with shaded brown patina.
Charles CUMBERWORTH (1811-1852).
Neapolitan mandolin player.
Paris, circa 1845.
Signed "Cumberworth" in cursive letters on the side of the terrace.
Height : 43 cm
Bibliography:
- "Bénézit 1976 T. 3"
- Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'École Française au XIXème siècle" Stanislas Lami Paris 1914
Charles Cumberworth (1811-1852), son of an English army officer and a French woman who settled with him in Paris. A pupil of James Pradier (1790-1852) at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1829, he exhibited at the Salon de Paris from 1833 to 1848, mostly with allegorical statues of a very classical style.
Prix de Rome in 1842.
His most famous sculptures are "L'Amour de soi" (Musée des beaux-arts de La Rochelle), "Lesbie et son moineau" (Paris, Musée du Louvre) and "Paul et Virginie" (1851).
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