Alfred Boucher (French 1850-1934) - La Philosophie de l’Histoire

Alfred Boucher (French 1850-1934) - La Philosophie de l’Histoire

Signed ‘A. BOUCHER’ bottom left, white marble
27 x 12 ¾ x 6 ½ in. (68.6 x 32.4 x 16.5cm)

Provenance

Private Collection, Maryland.

Literature

Jacques Piette, Alfred Boucher 1850-1034 “Sculpteur – Humaniste,’ Musée Paul Dubois-Alfred Boucher, Nogent-sur-Seine, 2000, no. 49, p. 55 (another model illustrated).
Jacques Piette, Alfred Boucher 1850-1934: L’Œuvre Sculpté, Catalogue Raisonné, Editions Mare et Martin, Paris, 2014, pp. 238-244, no. A56 (for a similar model).

Lot Essay

Alfred Boucher trained with Joseph-Marius Ramus and later studied at l’École des Beaux Arts, Paris, later receiving the Grand Prix on more than one occasion. The present model was a favorite of Boucher’s and he executed several variations, each with exacting realism as in the present work.