Jean-Jacques FEUCHERE (1807-1852) - Lot 317

Jean-Jacques FEUCHERE (1807-1852) Satan, the fallen angel Proof in bronze with a green-brown patina signed on the reverse of the terrace. H. 21,5 cm Related work : Jean-Jacques Feuchère, Satan, bronze with dark patina, signed "J. Feuchère 1833" on the terrace on the left H. 34.5cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. RF 4420 Bibliography : KJELLBERG Pierre, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle - Dictionnaire des sculptures, Les éditions de l'amateur. Reproduced on page 316. Jean-Jacques FEUCHERE was part of the 19th century romanticism movement, drawing on biblical iconography with his representation of Satan, the plaster of which he unveiled at the 1834 Salon and the bronze at the Salon the following year. He let appear the figure of a fallen angel which will inspire Rodin for The Thinker or Carpeaux in Ugolin.