Lot 130: GUSTAVE-JOSEPH CHÉRET 1838-1894 A SILVERED BRONZE FIGURAL VASE LATE 19TH CENTURY

GUSTAVE-JOSEPH CHÉRET 1838-1894 A SILVERED BRONZE FIGURAL VASE LATE 19TH CENTURY

LATE 19TH CENTURY

measurements
height 12in.

alternate measurements
30.5cm

with inscription Joseph Cheret and Copyright by E. Soleau. Paris 1893.

NOTE

The sculptor Gustave-Joseph Chéret trained under Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, whose daughter he married. After Carrier-Belleuse's death, Chéret took over as a member of the artistic management of the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres. After Chéret's death, his works were exhibited at the École des Beaux Arts and then dispersed at the Hôtel Drouot in December 1894.