{"id":187,"date":"2017-11-16T17:23:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephanepepe.com\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2023-10-11T10:20:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T10:20:06","slug":"top-des-encheres","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stephanepepe.com\/en\/top-des-encheres\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP AUCTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; foundry_padding=&#8221;pb0&#8243;][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=&#8221;post_title&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left|color:%23efb121&#8243; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1510846984815{margin-top: 1px !important;margin-right: 1px !important;margin-bottom: 1px !important;margin-left: 1px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 1px !important;padding-right: 1px !important;padding-bottom: 1px !important;padding-left: 1px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;62px&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;188&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;fadeInLeft&#8221;][vc_column_text]Jean Baptiste<br \/>\nsaid Auguste CL\u00c9SINGER 1814-1883<br \/>\nWoman with a snake in white Carrara marble<br \/>\nSigned J.CLESINGER 1875<br \/>\nH.171<br \/>\nAwarded: \u20ac122,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The woman with the snake&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h4|text_align:center|color:%23efb121&#8243; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1697017489457{margin-top: 1px !important;margin-right: 1px !important;margin-bottom: 1px !important;margin-left: 1px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 1px !important;padding-right: 1px !important;padding-bottom: 1px !important;padding-left: 1px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]Jean Baptiste Auguste Cl\u00e9singer known as Auguste Cl\u00e9singer is a French sculptor particularly known because of his links with Georges Sand, whose son-in-law he was, and with Fr\u00e9deric Chopin, whose tomb he sculpted. Auguste Cl\u00e9singer is the son of Georges-Philippe Cl\u00e9singer, himself a sculptor, who trained him at the Besan\u00e7on school of fine arts where he is a professor. It began at the Paris Salon of 1843 with a bust of Viscount Jules De Valdahon. His last exhibition took place in 1864. He is the author of numerous busts, notably those of the actress Rachel F\u00e9lix and Th\u00e9ophile Gautier and the statue of Louise de Savoie from the series of Queens of France and illustrious women of the Luxembourg gardens. in Paris. Cl\u00e9singer caused a scandal at the Salon of 1847 by presenting his Woman Bitten by a Snake. This romantic sculpture is made from a cast made of Apollinaire Sabatier, the muse of Charles Baudelaire, then mistress of the wealthy Belgian industrialist Alfred Mosselman, an art lover, who placed the order4. Here through this sculpture of an exceptionally large size Auguste Clesinger expresses all his talent and his art as a sculptor.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday May 20, 2017 Nice RIVIERA auction house. Cabinet of expertise St\u00e9phane Pepe Expertise<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To contact the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephanepepe.com\/en\/contact\/\"> department of \u00a0purchases and sales<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;62px&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;191&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;fadeInLeft&#8221;][vc_column_text]Chest of drawers<\/p>\n<p>Louis XVI period<\/p>\n<p>Bears the Riesener and Canabas stamps.<\/p>\n<p>H. 89 cm L. 138 cm D. 63 cm<\/p>\n<p>Awarded: \u20ac76,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;A chest of drawers from the Alphonse de Rothschild collection&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h4|text_align:center|color:%23efb121&#8243; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1697017533642{margin-top: 1px !important;margin-right: 1px !important;margin-bottom: 1px !important;margin-left: 1px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 1px !important;padding-right: 1px !important;padding-bottom: 1px !important;padding-left: 1px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Rothschild family collections have always had a pedigree that attracts and arouses the interest of art collectors. Our chest of drawers purchased by Baron Alphonse de Rothschild during the 19th century entered the collection of his son Edouard and by succession into that of Bethsab\u00e9e de Rothschild, granddaughter of Baron Alphonse. He first lived in a private mansion built for him at 47, Rue de Monceau before inheriting the H\u00f4tel de Saint Florentin on the death of his father. He also owned the immense Domaine de Ferrieres, on which his father had the most luxurious castle of the 19th century built under the Second Empire.<\/p>\n<p>A great collector of paintings by old masters (by Hooch, Rubens, Rembrandt, Hals), member of the committee of the Universal Exhibition of 1867, elected to the Academy of Fine Arts, Alphonse de Rothschild was an important donor to French museums; among other things, from 1888 to 1904, he donated around twenty paintings to the Soissons museum, and in 1892 another donation to the Saint Malo museum.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday December 5, 2017. Nice RIVIERA auction house. St\u00e9phane PEPE Expertise Firm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephanepepe.com\/en\/contact\/\"><u>department of purchases and sales.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2288&#8243;][vc_column_text]Prayer<\/p>\n<p>Cararre white marble sculpture<\/p>\n<p>Signed A.CARRIER-BELLEUSE<\/p>\n<p>H. 56 cm<\/p>\n<p>Awarded: \u20ac7,500<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Albert-Ernest CARRIER -BELLEUSE (1824-1887) THE PRAYER&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h4|text_align:center|color:%23dd9933&#8243;][vc_column_text]Sculpture in white Carrara marble representing a young woman kneeling with crossed arms holding a branch of lilies. 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