RENÉ DE SAINT-MARCEAUX (1845-1915), A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF A HARLEQUIN CAST BY BARBEDIENNE

RENÉ DE SAINT-MARCEAUX (1845-1915) A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF A HARLEQUIN
CAST BY BARBEDIENNE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Standing masked figure clad in his Commedia dell'arte costume, signed to cast, dated 1879, stamped F Barbedienne Foundry, Paris, numbered 636 and with Collas reduction méchanique pastille mark
68cm high, base 26cm wide

René de Saint-Marceaux entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris under the tutelage of Jouffroy, exhibiting at the Salon of 1868, studying later in Italy. He was awarded gold medals at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889, having been elected as a Chevalier to the Legion d'Honneur in 1880. Examples of this Harlequin figure are held in the Reims Museum, and Bucharest Arts Museum.