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Title:
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The Death of a Friend
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This statuette was inspired by a poem entitled L'Arabe au tombeau de son coursier. The poem was published amongst the Elégies of the French poet, Charles Hubert Millevoye (1782-1816). A new edition in two volumes of the complete works of Millevoye came out in 1837, so we can probably place Marochetti's statuette around 1840. It was cast by the firm of Soyer et Ingé. In the Musée des Beaux Arts at Angers there is a large painting of 1812, illustrating the same subject, by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse.
In 1841, Marochetti took to Glasgow a cast of this statuette, in an attempt, successful in the long term, to persuade a committee to commission from him a statue of the Duke of Wellington for the city. The Art Union, which was antagonistic to Marochetti's candidature for this commission, described the statuette dismissively as "a Turkish figure seated beside a dead horse".
Another version of this statuette is in the Musée Girodet at Montargis, and one was offered for sale at Sotheby's, London on 2 June 2010 (Lot.68) under the title Les deux amis (The Two Friends).
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Signature: |
C. Marochetti |
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Material(s): |
Bronze
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Medium: |
Unassigned |
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Genre: |
Ideal Group
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Year: |
1840 |
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Key: |
2152 |
Acc. No.: |
2152 |
Col. No.: |
2152 |
Number of views: |
2325 |
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