Alexis François THOMAS (1795-1875)
Bacchante on a lion skin
Original terracotta sketch.
Signed A. F Thomas on the back of the base.
Damage and restoration.
H. 22 cm
Related literature:? Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française au XIXe siècle, Paris, 1921, reprinted by Kraus Reprint, 1970, vol. IV, p. 301.
A pupil of Louis-Pierre Deseine and Emmanuel Dupaty, Alexis François Thomas exhibited at the Salon between 1833 and 1859. Our sketch may be a preparatory study for the marble statue entitled L'Odalisque, acquired by the Société des amis des arts de Valenciennes.
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