ALEXANDRE VIBERT – “THEODORA”, CIRCA 1900
“THEODORA”, CIRCA 1900
Symbolist sculpture in silver and gilt patinated bronze representing a woman standing up, draped, wearing a tiara embedded with a red stone, holding a book in onyx, placed on a square base with four columns in lapis and enameled panels on metal decorated with mythological figures, her necklace and her shoe encrusted with colored stones
The base bearing the inscription Prix Lagrange 1906
Signed
82 cm. high
Bibliography
Alastair Duncan, Art Nouveau Sculpture, illustrated