Jean-Jacques Feuchère
Paris 1807 – Paris 1852
Raphael
1834 (plaster model)
Brown patinated bronze and gilded bronze
33.5 x 25.7 x 16.4 cm
Gift in honour of Guy Cogeval and Nathalie Bondil, inv. 2005.22
Western Art
Jean-Jacques Feuchère is known for his elegant modelling of bronze art objects, decorative statuettes and knickknacks of all sorts designed to adorn middle-class homes. The July Monarchy saw the rise of a new fashion for small bronzes, which replaced biscuit-ware on mantelpieces and as table centrepieces and clock decorations. Seated in the meditative pose appropriate to great men, Raphael is here shown casually pointing to a sketch of one of his Madonnas. The Italian Renaissance master, the very image of perennially youthful genius, was almost a cult figure throughout the nineteenth century.
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