Lot 53
George Minne
Belgium / 1866 - 1941
Study for the sculpture of Jacques Franquart (ca. 1901)
€ 2.000 - 3.000
Details
Sculpture - White marble
Sig. "GMinne"
36,5 x 12 x 10 cm
When adorning the western side façade of Brussels City Hall, Minne was commissioned to create a life-size sculpture of the architect, painter and geographer Jacques Franquart (1577-1651). The final execution in stone differs from the design in plaster of which this is a version in marble.
Provenance
- Coll. P. De Blieck
Auction Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 29-9-1993, nr. 640
Literature
- "George Minne en de kunst rond 1900" MSK, Ghent 1982, exhibition cat., cf. cat. nr. 138 (ill. of the design in plaster) and p. 20 ill. 7 (A practitioner at work on Franquart's statue, 1901)
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