LOUIS-ERNEST BARRIAS – SUSSE FRERES – “LA NATURE SE DÉVOILANT DEVANT LA SCIENCE”, CIRCA 1900

“LA NATURE SE DÉVOILANT DEVANT LA SCIENCE”, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze and marble sculpture with
polychrome highlights; the scarab in sodalite; the base in green marble
Signed E. Barrias, and with foundry mark Susse Frères éditeurs, Paris
58 cm. high

Exhibition
Exposition Universelle of 1900, an example with two patinas illustrated in the exhibition catalogue,
Liège, 1903

Bibliography
Illustrated in the Susse Frères catalogues,
1905 and 1910
Les bronzes du XIXème, P. Kjellberg, Éd. de l'amateur 2005, p.50
Bronzes Sculptors & founders 1800-1950, H. Berman, Abage publishers, 1977 tome 3 n. 1387 p. 375

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