F BARBEDIENNE Fondeur "A Collas Reduction Mechanique" Seal Young Faun 19C RARE

F BARBEDIENNE Fondeur "A Collas Reduction Mechanique" Seal Young Faun 19C RARE (image 3/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])

F BARBEDIENNE Fondeur "A Collas Reduction Mechanique" Seal Young Faun 19C RARE (image 4/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])

F BARBEDIENNE Fondeur "A Collas Reduction Mechanique" Seal Young Faun 19C RARE (image 5/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])

F BARBEDIENNE Fondeur "A Collas Reduction Mechanique" Seal Young Faun 19C RARE (image 6/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])

F BARBEDIENNE Fondeur "A Collas Reduction Mechanique" Seal Young Faun 19C RARE (image 7/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])

F BARBEDIENNE Fondeur "A Collas Reduction Mechanique" Seal Young Faun 19C RARE (image 8/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])

F BARBEDIENNE Fondeur "A Collas Reduction Mechanique" Seal Young Faun 19C RARE (image 9/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])

F BARBEDIENNE Fondeur "A Collas Reduction Mechanique" Seal Young Faun 19C RARE (image 10/[null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null])

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F BARBEDIENNE Fondeur "A Collas Reduction Mechanique" Seal Young Faun 19C RARE. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.Aloha & Mahalo for your interest in this Rare A. BARBEDIENNE Fondeur 19th Century, " A CollasReduction Mechanique" Seal on Base! This RARE Statuette representing the young faun playing the flute leaning on a column is15 3/4" tall by 5 1/2" base and weighs over 18 pounds! This is considered the Medium Size as the Large Stauettes start at about 32" in height, but I have never seen this type manufacture from the foundry in Paris France!Some information about the (2) owners of this Foundry is given : Ferdinand Barbedienne, (1810-92) is mostly known for his bronze foundry, which he owned with Achille Collas in 1839 who had invented a method for mechanical size reduction of larger sculptures. His first castings were reduced versions of antique statues from European museums, and in the mid 1840s began reproducing the work of living sculptors including the animalier sculptor, Antoine Louis Barye and later in the 19th century Auguste Rodin. On the death of Achille Collas in 1859, Ferdinand Barbedienne became the sole proprietor of the business which at that time employed 300 workers. His work was held in high regard, and he was elected President of the Reunion of Bronze Makers in 1865, a position he held for the next 20 years. Ferdinand Barbedienne died in 1891 and the business taken over by his nephew Gustave Leblanc who continued the foundry with the high standards set by Barbedienne. The business closed in 1954. Works from the foundry are most commonly marked 'Fondeur F. Barbedienne' or similarSecondly is Achille Collas (1795--1859) was a French engineer, inventor, writer and engraver who developed a way of mechanically creating engravings after medallions and other reliefs, and a machine to copy sculptures at a smaller scale, the so-called "réduction méchanique", which popularized small sculptures and has been credited with being almost entirely responsible for "the transformation of the bronze industry".[1]Achille Collas was born in Paris in 1795. He worked as an engineer before joining the Army at the end of the First French Empire. Afterwards he worked as a toolmaker and inventor. He never married. He applied for many patents, most of them for long-forgotten inventions for buckle-making machines and other tools. His most successful inventions had to do with the reproduction of 3D artworks in 2D and 3D.[1]He produced the illustrations for The authors of England: A series of medallion portraits of modern literary characters, engraved from the works of British artists by Henry Fothergill Chorley from 1838: this work contains a ten-page introduction outlining the new procedure of mechanically creating engravings from cameos and medals, developed by Collas.[2] He developed this method between 1825 and 1832, demonstrating it at the Salon of 1833. Using this procedure, he created the Trésor de numismatique et glyptique.[3] When it was finished in 1850, it reproduced some 15,000 items, spread over 20 volumes.[4]His second great invention came in 1836, when he produced a pantograph-like machine to reproduce sculptures in different scales and materials.[1] In 1838, he started a company together with Ferdinand Barbedienne, the "Société Collas et Barbedienne", for the production and marketing of reduced copies of sculptures in different materials ranging from plaster and wood to bronze and ivory.[5] The first product of the company was a reproduction of the Venus of Milo, but for the next ten years nothing much happened, until Barbedienne sent some pieces to The Great Exhibition of 1851, where the company received a special medal. Further success came in 1855, when Collas was awarded the Grand Médaille d'Honneur of the Exposition Universelle in Paris.[1] By the time of Barbedienne's death in 1892 the company had some 600 employees. It existed until 1954As you can see the great History behind these two, these type of Statues are RARE and expensive! There is one similar for s... read more

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