Aimé-Jules Dalou (French, 1838-1902)

Aimé-Jules Dalou (French, 1838-1902)

Femme nue assise, sans bras
bronze
signed Dalou, inscribed M, and with Cire Perdue A.A. Hébrard foundry mark
Height of bronze 11 3/4 inches.

Property from the Estate of Howard and Irene Stein, Atlanta, Georgia European Furniture & Decorative Arts
Height overall 14 1/4 inches. In good and stable condition overall with minor instances of debris from dust in crevices. With white handwritten Sotheby's lot sticker to the underside. Additional images available upon request.

Provenance:
Descendants of Hébrard
Heim Gallery, London
Collection of Nadia Gordon, née Nerina
Heim Gallery, London
Collection of Arthur M. Sackler, New York
Sold Sotheby's, New York, Important European Terracotta & Bronze Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 29 January, 2010, Lot 527

Exhibited:
London, Mallett at Bourdon House, Ltd., Sculptures by Jules Dalou (1838-1902), 28 April-9 May 1964, no. 26, p. 17
Galerie Delestre, Paris, Jules Dalou (1838-1902), 1976, no. 37

Note:
Cast from the artist's original wax model, the present bronze was conceived as a study for the figure allegorical of Justice in a larger figural group titled Monument à la Justice. Intended for the Salon Delacroix of the Palais Bourbon in Paris, Dalou's Monument à la Justice was never completed. A polychromed plaster and wood maquette of the figural group resides in the collection of the Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris (no. 336), in addition to a plaster maquette very similar to the present lot (no. 227).