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Artworks
Guillaume I Coustou (1677-1746)
Hercules on the Pyre, c.1702–3Terracotta sketch; old repair to the proper left leg
40 cm. long
27 cm. highFurther images
Provenance
Private collection Paris, before 1977 when published by Francois Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries – The Reign of Louis XIV, Vol. I A-F, 1977, p. 358, Fig. 7b2
Literature
F. Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries – The Reign of Louis XIV, Vol. I A-F, 1977, p. 358, Fig. 7b2
F. Souchal, Les frères Coustou : Nicolas (1658-1733)-Guillaume (1677- 1746) et l’évolution de la sculpture française du Dôme des Invalides aux Chevaux de Marly, Paris, 1980, 7b
F. Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries – The Reign of Louis XIV, Vol. IV: Supplement A-Z, 1993, p. 44, Fig. 7b2
U. Ströbele, Die Bildhaueraufnahmestücke der Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris 1700–1730, Imhof Verlag, 2012, p. 675
SOLD TO A PRIVATE COLLECTOR, USA
SOLD TO A PRIVATE COLLECTOR, USA
