Charles-Guillaume DIEHL (1811-1885) & Emmanuel FRÉMIET & (1824-1910), d'après

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Charles-Guillaume DIEHL (1811-1885) & Emmanuel FRÉMIET & (1824-1910), d'après
Planter with quadrangular body in blackened wood decorated in its angles of cambered felines, the central niche decorated with a fantastic winged creature in polychrome ceramic. The feet are Chinese bases in polychrome ceramic. Around 1870. H. : 22 cm, W. : 45 cm, D. : 32 cm (Some chips in the ceramic) Charles-Guillaume Diehl is a German cabinetmaker who arrived in Paris in 1840. He obtained a bronze medal for a mechanical psyche at the Exposition Universelle in 1855. The fantastic winged creature on our planter is deliberately inspired by the gargoyle motif designed by Jean-Eugène Brandely for the leaf of the Merovingian Medallion made by Charles-Guillaume Diehl in 1867 and kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Inv. 1989-197). He worked in close collaboration with Emmanuel Frémiet, a realistic animal sculptor. His arched felines are a leading figure in Diehl's late 19th century furniture. Frémiet started a drawing school in 1848, and in 1849 received the second prize for animal drawing. He exhibited at the 1853 Salon, which earned him official commissions from Napoleon III. In 1892, he was elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. He succeeded Antoine-Louis Barye as professor of drawing at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. He remained a member of the Society of French Artists until 1908.
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