Henry de TRIQUETI (1803-1874) - Lot 78

Henry de TRIQUETI (1803-1874) Muse, 1856 White marble bust Signed "H. de. TRIQUETI" and dated "1856" below left shoulder H. 53 cm Resting on a white marble hexagonal base veneered with sea-green marble H. 12 cm Provenance: Château du Perthuis. Related works: - Henry de Triqueti, Laure et Pétrarque à la fontaine de Vaucluse, pen and brown ink, 25.4 x 18.5 cm, Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts; - Henry de Triqueti, Laure et Pétrarque à la fontaine de Vaucluse, lithographic stone, 20 x 30 cm, private collection; - Sketch for the vase commissioned by M. Thiers, Minister of the Interior, 1837 or 1838, pen and brown ink on tinted paper, 14.4 x 39.3 cm, Paris, ENSBA, inv. no. 17429-11 ; - Henry de Triqueti, Allégorie de la musique, Musée de Chantilly, frontispiece to song manuscript, 1861, pen, black and red ink on parchment, 38.7 x 28.5 cm, Chantilly, Musée Condé, inv. no. DE1208; - Henry de Triqueti, Vittoria Colonna, Béatrice et Laure, elements of the Monument à Dante et Pétrarque, 1839, bronzes, Paris, Musée du Louvre, n° inv. RF 4660 ; RF 4658 ; RF 4659 ; - Henry de Triqueti, Vase from the Monument to Dante and Petrarch, 1836-1838, bronze, H. 85 cm, signed H. de Triqueti, inscription on the body: E.LA.PIV. CASTA.ERA.IVI.LA PIU. BELLA /E. HONORATE. ALTIMISSIMO. POETA and bears the mark of the publisher and founder "fderie et fque de B.zes de Ls. Richard Eck et Durand ([foundry and bronze factory of Louis Richard Eck et Durand]), presented at the Salon of 1838, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. no. RFML.SC.2024.22.1. Bibliography : Sylvain Bellenger, "Henri de Triqueti et l'Angleterre", in La Sculture: Studi in onore di Andrew Ciechanowiecki, Antologia di Belle Arti, Turin, 1996, pp. 183-200, illustrated under no. 5 p. 188. Related literature: - A. T. De Girardot, " Catalogue de l'œuvre du baron de Triqueti ", précédé d'une notice sur ce sculpteur ", offprint (Orléans 1874, Imprimerie de Puget), reprinting the text of the article published in Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences, belles-lettres et arts d'Orléans, seconde série des mémoires, t. XVI, n° 3, 1874, 3e trimestre (séances des 1ermai et 17 juillet 1874), p. 134 ; - Ss dir I. Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, Henry de Triqueti 1803-1874, Le Sculpteur des Princes, cat. exp, Orléans, musée des Beaux-Arts, Montargis, musée Girodet de Montargis, October 3, 2007-January 6, 2008, Paris, Hazan, p. 37-51 and p. 91 ; - Shannon Hunter Hurtado, Genteel Mavericks: professional Women sculptors in Victorian Britain, Cultural Interactions Studies in the Relationship between the Arts, vol. 27, Peter lang, 2012, p. 130 ; - Richard Dagorne and Alicia Robinson, "Henry de Triqueti, The Vase of dreams", in the Burlington magazine, no. 161, november 2019, pp. 924-933 ; - Deschamps-Tan, Stéphanie, "Une ode du XIXème siècle à la poésie italienne", in Grande Galerie. Le journal du Louvre, 68, Autumn, 2024, p. 30-31 ; - Stéphanie Deschamps-Tan, "Henri de Triqueti (Conflans-sur-le-Loing 1803-Paris 1874) Vase from the Monument to Dante and Petrarch. 1838-1839", in La Revue des musées de France. Revue du Louvre, 2025-2, 2025, 89, p. 89, n° 109 ; - Tabitha Barber and Tim Batchelor, Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920, Tate, London, May 16-October 13, 2024, London, Tate Publishing, 2024, fig. 109, p. 123. "All Henry de Triqueti's tastes and aptitudes drew him to the great masters of the Italian Renaissance." (Quote from Charles Clément in the Journal des Débats reported by Girardot, 1874). This marble bust, subtly combining ideal neoclassical beauty and fresh naturalism, is a veritable ode to the Italian culture that inspired Henry de Triqueti throughout his career. In an article by Sylvain Bellenger, the work is entitled "Portrait de Blanche Triqueti" (ill. 5, p. 188). The general aesthetic of the work is rather similar to the portrait-medallion of Florence and Alice Campbell produced in the same years 1856-1857 (Projet pour les bustes de Florence et Alice Campbell, 1855, patinated plaster, Montargis, musée Girodet, Portrait médaillon de Florence and Alice Campbell, 1857, signed H. de TRIQUETI; H. 72,5 cm, marble on a rosewood and antique green marble base, H. 113 cm, awaiting export license in the UK) [...]. WE INVITE YOU TO CONSULT THE DETAILED DESCRIPTION BY DOWNLOADING THE DOCUMENT " FICHE COMPLÈTE " ON DROUOT.COM OR BY REFERRING TO THE PDF CATALOG.