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Lot 11: ENÉE SAUVANT SON PÈRE ANCHISE ET SON FILS ASCAGNE DE L’INCENDIE DE TROIE

Est: €100,000 EUR - €150,000 EURSold:
Marc Arthur Kohn ParisParis, FranceJune 23, 2015

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Description

ENÉE SAUVANT SON PÈRE ANCHISE ET SON FILS ASCAGNE DE L’INCENDIE DE TROIE
Par Pierre LEPAUTRE (1660-1744)
D’après un modèle de François GIRARDON (1628-1715)
France, début du XVIIIe siècle
Matériau
Bronze à patine brune
Socle du XVIIe siècle attribué à André-Charles BOULLE
H. 54,5 cm, L. 25 cm, P. 26 cm

Notre bronze est probablement celui illustré dans le catalogue de l’exposition The French Bronze - 1500 to 1800,n° 57, présenté à New York en 1968 par M. Knoedler & Co.
Chef-d’œuvre de la sculpture française à l’époque de Louis XIV, ce groupe en bronze à patine brune montrant Enée, fils de Vénus et d’Anchise, cuirassé et casqué, quittant Troie en flammes en portant son père suivi de son jeune fils Ascagne, constitue une remarquable et dramatique composition d’obédience baroque, influencée par Giambologna et Le Bernin, créée par deux des plus grands sculpteurs de la fin du règne du Roi Soleil : François
Girardon et Pierre Lepautre.
Tiré de l’Enéide, poème inachevé de Virgile, le groupe évoque la fuite d’Enée, au moment où Troie tomba aux mains des Achéens grâce à la célèbre ruse d’Ulysse.
Enée est représenté en position cabrée, en appui sur sa jambe gauche, enjambant un fragment d’architecture symbolisant la destruction de la ville de Troie. Il porte enserré dans ses bras son père Anchise, ce dernier levant les yeux au ciel, simplement vêtu d’un drapé autour de sa taille, coiffé d’un bonnet, et tenant le Palladium, image de Pallas qui deviendra l’emblème sacré des Romains. De sa main droite tendue dans le dos d’Enée, Anchise tient le poignet du jeune Ascagne, tourné vers la ville et cherchant désespérément des yeux sa mère Cré??se, fille de Priam, qui a disparu. Le groupe repose sur un tertre feuillagé de section carrée et légèrement bombé.
Il constitue une réduction de l’original en marbre blanc réalisé entre 1697 et 1716 par Pierre Lepautre d’après une esquisse en cire que lui avait confiée François Girardon en 1696 .
Exécutée durant le séjour de l’artiste à l’Académie de France à Rome à partir de 1697,
transportée en France en 1715 pour orner le jardin du château de Marly, l’oeuvre aujourd’hui
conservée au Musée du Louvre, signée P. LE-PAUTRE FECIT, 1716, fut terminée avec
l’aide de Jacques Bousseau .
Un modello en terre cuite en réduction de l’oeuvre originale en marbre est aujourd’hui conservé au sein du Victoria and Albert Museum à Londres .
Au XVIIIe siècle, Lepautre lui-même en avait conservé un exemplaire dans son atelier
et Lalive de Jully, le célèbre introducteur des ambassadeurs de Louis XV, en posséda
également un autre. L’œuvre de Lepautre suscita un vif intérêt auprès des amateurs et collectionneurs du XVIIIe siècle qui se piquèrent d’en posséder une version en bronze en réduction. Les grandes ventes aux enchères de cette époque apparaissent très révélatrices de cet engouement et mentionnent en particulier la présence de groupes en bronze similaires au nôtre dans le cabinet de Monsieur de Selle, trésorier général de la Marine, chez le peintre Pierre Le Brun, ou encore dans la collection Peters vendue à Paris le 9 mars 1779.
Parmi les rares exemplaires de ces bronzes subsistant aujourd’hui, signalons en sus
du nôtre, celui provenant de la collection Seligmann, acquis en 1962 par le musée
des Beaux-Arts d’Ontario, au Canada et celui conservé à Cambridge, Massachusetts
(U.S.A.), au Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum.

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Auction Details

Renaissance, Objets d'Art et Ameublement VIIe- XVIIIe et XIX

by
Marc Arthur Kohn Paris
June 23, 2015, 06:00 PM CET

112 rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, Paris, 75008, FR

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COLLECTION OF PURCHASES
If payment is made by cheque or by wire transfer, lots cannot be withdrawn until the payment has been cleared. From the moment the hammer falls, sold items will become the exclusive responsibility of the buyer. The buyer will be solely responsible for the insurance. Marc-Arthur Kohn assumes no liability for any damage to items. Buyers at Marc-Arthur Kohn are requested to confirm with Marc-Arthur Kohn before withdrawing their purchases. Kohn has several storage warehouses. An export licence can take four or six weeks to process, although this time may be significantly reduced depending upon how promptly the buyer supplies the necessary information to Marc-Arthur KOHN.
Law and jurisdiction:
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Any dispute shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Paris.

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COLLECTION OF PURCHASES
If payment is made by cheque or by wire transfer, lots cannot be withdrawn until the payment has been cleared. From the moment the hammer falls, sold items will become the exclusive responsibility of the buyer. The buyer will be solely responsible for the insurance. Marc-Arthur Kohn assumes no liability for any damage to items. Buyers at Marc-Arthur Kohn are requested to confirm with Marc-Arthur Kohn before withdrawing their purchases. Kohn has several storage warehouses. An export licence can take four or six weeks to process, although this time may be significantly reduced depending upon how promptly the buyer supplies the necessary information to Marc-Arthur KOHN.
Law and jurisdiction:
These Conditions of purchase are governed by french law exclusively.
Any dispute shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Paris.