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Title:
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Alice Silvy
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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During the last eight years of his life, Marochetti enjoyed a close working relationship with the photographer Camille Silvy, who in 1859 moved from Paris to London and took over the photographic studios, which had formally been occupied by the firm of Caldesi and Montecchi, at 38 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater. Marochetti employed Silvy to take pictures of sculpture in his own studio in Sydney Mews, and many Marochetti statuettes and busts were on view in the Porchester Terrace studio, where they could be selected by customers as background props in their carte de visite portraits. At Porchester Terrace, one of the attractions was a shrine-like room, called The Queen's Room, in which the central feature was a sculpture of Queen Victoria by Marochetti. In 1863, Silvy met and married Alice Monnier, daughter of a historian from the Jura region. This bust was presumably executed as a favour for a friend, and remains the possession of the photographer's descendants.
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Material(s): |
Marble
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Medium: |
Unassigned |
Finish: |
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Technique: |
Carved |
Genre: |
Portrait Bust
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Location: |
Private Collection, France, , ,
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Year: |
1867 |
Height: |
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Key: |
5802 |
Acc. No.: |
5802 |
Col. No.: |
5802 |
Number of views: |
2481 |
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