Lot 507: ETIENNE HIPPOLYTE MAINDRON

VELLÉDA
signed MAINDRON on back right side, inscribed VELLEDA on front of base

height 17 3/4 in., 45 cm

terracotta

circa 1844

Washington, New York, Cambridge, 1979-1982, no. 95 (illus.)

Heim Gallery, London

In the Salon of 1844 Maindron exhibited the marble statue of Velléda he had completed for the Ministry of the Interior for the Jardin de Luxembourg, where it remains. A plaster model presently in the Musée D'Angers was shown at the 1839 Salon, and another made for the Tuileries is now in the Louvre.