FRENCH SCHOOL circa 1800, entourage of Johan Tobias SERGEL ( - Lot 177

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FRENCH SCHOOL circa 1800, entourage of Johan Tobias SERGEL ( - Lot 177
FRENCH SCHOOL circa 1800, entourage of Johan Tobias SERGEL (1740-1814) Bacchanalian scene Original terracotta group. Accidents and restorations. H. 44 cm Johan Tobias Sergel is undeniably a great name in Northern European sculpture, but his "manner" was entirely shaped by French art. Although born in Sweden, he lived in Paris in the 1750's. He then returned to Sweden before leaving in 1667 for Rome where he lived for nine years. He distinguished himself there with his Faun made in 1774 for the Baron de Breteuil (marble, size 47 x 86 cm, Sweden, Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Finland, inv. B I 108). He stayed in France and England before returning to Sweden where he became very famous. He perpetuated the great French classical art of the 1750s while being one of the initiators of the neo-classical movement at the end of the 18th century. Sergel has a predilection for antique and mythological subjects that he realizes with a sense of narration and a great technical mastery of the terracotta. In this sense he is very close to another famous contemporary sculptor, Claude Michel, known as Clodion, with whom he responds to the infatuation of art lovers and collectors of the Age of Enlightenment for pleasant subjects in terra cotta.
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