French 18th-Century Sculpture on the Podium

Result EUR506,500

Published on 22 June 2023, by La Gazette Drouot

Auction on 06 June 2023 - 18:00 (CEST) - Salle 9 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

Allegories of the Nile and the Tiber, a carnivorous theropod from the Upper Jurassic period and a whispered word.

French school c. 1715, pair of brown-red patina bronzes depicting allegorical figures... French 18th-Century Sculpture on the Podium

French school c. 1715, pair of brown-red patina bronzes depicting allegorical figures of the Nile (40 x 75 x 32.6 cm/15.74 x 29.52 x 12.83 in) and the Tiber (shown, 43 x 74.6 x 32.8 cm/16.92 x 29.37 x 12.91 in).
Result: €506,500

Modigliani’s Burgundian Woman and the prototype of the Panhard-CD LM 64 found no buyers; so the top result of this sale, called “Temptation” and based on a new concept, was achieved by a pair of French bronzes from around 1715, a milestone in French history as it was the year King…

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