Charles-Gabriel Sauvage dit Lemire (1741 - 1827) d'après

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Charles-Gabriel Sauvage dit Lemire (1741 - 1827) d'après
Children reading and drawing. Two brown patinated bronze subjects forming pendants. (the tablet of the child drawing is missing) H.: 44 cm and 45.5 cm. First third of the 19th century. A pair of bronzes, identical to the statuettes presented here, is kept in the Louvre museum (OA 11223). Apart from our bronzes, these models were only known as bisque models, attributed to the sculptor Charles-Gabriel Sauvage dit Lemire (1741-1827) and made by the Parisian manufactory of Dihl and Guérhard. Artistic director and head of the modeling workshop at the Niderviller porcelain manufactory from 1781, Lemire passed himself into the service of Dihl in 1802 and ordered many bisque models from him. In addition to the bronzes that belonged to Dihl now in the Louvre, a pair of smaller bronzes (H.: 29cm), probably made after 1830, belong to the M. James Grafstein collection in New York. Height: 47.5 and 48 cm CRD. Bibliographical references: - A. Lefebure, Musée du Louvre, Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art 1985-1989, Paris 1990-1991, pp. 229-231, fig. 11 A and B - R. de Plinval de Guillebon, La manufacture de porcelaine de Guérhard et Dihl dite du duc d'Angoulème, The French Porcelain Society, vol. IV, 1988, pp. 55-56 - S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'École Française au dixhuitième siècle, Paris, 1911 (reprinted 1970), pp. 55-56.
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