PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT – ALPHONSE VOISIN-DELACROIX – BUST OF A YOUNG WOMAN IN NUN’S COSTUME, 1893

BUST OF A YOUNG WOMAN IN A NUN’S COSTUME, 1893
Grès with red and green glaze
Signed
43 cm. high

This bust would be a posthumous portrait of Eugénie Delacroix, a young cousin of the artist who died prematurely in 1884. The sculptor reportedly used the young woman’s death mask to make the shape of her face.
There are three reduced model (of the plaster model) in enamelled grès, one is at the Musée d’Orsay, signed Voisin-Delacroix

Exhibition
Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1893, n°410 (Now at the musée d’Orsay, inventory number DO 1986-83)
Adrien Dalpayrat (1844-1910) – Céramiste de l’Art Nouveau, 1998
Fondation Neumann, Gingins, Switzeland
Kreismuseum Zons, Germany
Musée de l’Ile de France, Sceaux, France
Museum voor Sierkunst & Vormgeving, Gent, Belgium

Bibliography
Horst Makus & al.n, Adrien Dalpayrat – Céramiste de l’Art Nouveau, Arnoldsche, 1998, ill. n°123, p. 162

Provenance
Private collection