Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) Bacchante with a... Lot 281

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) Bacchante with a bunch of grapes Model created in 1892 Published by Siot-Decauville between 1892 and 1926 Statuette in gilded bronze Signed " J.L Gérôme " on the base Bears the circular stamp of the founder " SIOT-DECAUVILLE Fondeur PARIS " on the back of the base The upper part of the stick in the shape of a bunch of grapes is missing, small pits in the gilding H. 30,5 cm Related work : -Jean-Léon Gérôme, La Bacchante, 1873, panel, signed, H. 20 x W. 13.5 cm, location unknown. Related literature: -Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme. Monographie révisée et Catalogue raisonné mis à jour, Paris, Acr éd, Collection Les Orientalistes, 2000, model listed as S.25, pp. 318-319. Influenced by Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquity, Jean-Léon Gérôme created this charming group Bacchante à la grappe, also called Bacchante et l'Amour, in 1892. For his sculptures, the artist often drew inspiration from his Painted Works, in which he repeatedly explored the theme of a woman accompanied by a child in a natural, antique landscape. Here we recognize the composition of a young woman holding a bunch of grapes and leaning on a thyrse on which a child is climbing in The Bacchante painted in 1873. The model Bacchante with a bunch of grapes was produced in three dimensions in gilded bronze by the founder Siot-Decauville.