Style Japonism, Chinoiserie / Ref.03185
Eugène Laurent, sculptor - Japanese woman watering a plant
Dimensions
Width 9'' ⅞ 25cm
Height 16'' ⅞ 43cm
Depth: 6'' ¼ 16cm
Origin:
Circa 1880, France
Status:
excellent
This small patinated bronze statue bears the signature of the sculptor Eugène Laurent. The statue is of a Japanese woman busy watering a plant. The details in the carving work make this statue an exemplar of rare naturalism. The plant sits in a Japanese style bronze vase, just like the table on which the vase is placed on. As for the woman she is delicately represented. Dressed in a kimono closed by an obi belt, with an elegant hair do, and holding in her right hand a little jug that she is using to water the plant. In her left hand she is holding freshly cut, small flowers. This sculpture, made by a french artist, is highly inspired by Japonism which came to Europe at the end of the 19th century after accession of Meiji and when Japan opened its trade to the rest of the world. The appeal in Japan thus led western artists to make works of art directly inspired by the land of the rising sun.
Eugène Laurent (1832 -1898)
Eugène Laurent is born in Gray in april 1832. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon in 1861 and regularly attended until 1893. The sculptor presents busts and plaster or bronze medallions. He exhibits Psyche in 1886 and in 1890 a marble figure Joan of Arc. He also is the author of the Monument to Jacques Callot in Nancy and a statue of François Boucher, located on the second floor on the front side of the Paris city hall.
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