Sladmore: Life in Bronze

Aimé-Jules Dalou

Buste de bébé endormi, étude pour Joie Maternelle (Bust of a Sleeping Baby, Study for Maternal Joy)

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April 6, 02:54 PM GMT

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3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Aimé-Jules Dalou

French

1838 - 1902

Buste de bébé endormi, étude pour Joie Maternelle (Bust of a Sleeping Baby, Study for Maternal Joy)

signed: DALOU, stamped: CIRE / PERDUE / AA HEBRARD and numbered: A20

bronze, warm brown patina, on a scagliola base

bronze: 19cm., 7½in.

base: 7cm., 2¾in.

Private collection, France

London, The Sladmore Gallery, Monumental Inspiration - Rodin and Beyond, 2017, no. 4

Dalou's model of Bébe endormi was a study for one of the three infants from the Monument to the Grandchildren of Queen Victoria and thus dates to his English period in the 1870s.

RELATED LITERATURE
A. Simier, Jules Dalou: le sculpteur de la République, exh. cat. Petit-Palais, Paris, 2013, pp. 360-361, no. 289