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original terracotta figures by Louis Delaville, 1805
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Still little known, Louis Delaville is nevertheless one of the most endearing sculptors of the turn of the century. At a time of domination of a martial neo-classicism nourished by obscure references to an often fantasized antiquity, Delaville, despite being a pupil of Louis Boizot and Jacques-Louis David at the École des beaux-arts de Paris, prolonges the Picturesque moment of the 1770s-1780s. In modeled and baked clay, he gives life to a whole people of sympathetic and romantic characters, who one might think came out of the paintings of his contemporary Louis-Leopold Boilly, if they did not come from a more modest world. Of these terracotta groups of "ordinary life", the best known is certainly that of the "great-grandchildren of the painter François Boucher playing with the hot hand" created by Delaville in 1799 and today in the Louvre. "Around 1800, Delaville worked in the capital with a potter who lodged him in an attic on rue Mazarine. In the evening, he made his terracotta statuettes which he sold to make a little money." Our charming couple represents a young harvester and his sweet friend, allowing themselves a break from working in the fields to have fun. The first carries his hoe and a cane, and the second holds the crop of ears close to her in a fold of clothing.
Good condition. Restorations, repeated on the left hand of the young woman and the hoe of the young man. Slight accidents.
Height: 32 cm and 34 cm
Price : 6 000 € -
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