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JEANNE GRANIER'S STATUETTE

 

Date : 1899

Polychromic plaster

High : 34 cm

Only a maximum of hundred numbered samples, have been made, toucheded up and coloriated by Cappiello .

 

Jeanne Granier's statuette by leonetto Cappiello


Arsène Alexandre, artistic director of the "Rire", writes beside a black and white photographic copy of this statuette and of this of Yvette Guilbert's one:
" These two statuettes, work of art of a really extraordinary litheness and intensity of life, we don’t have to describe them, because our photos speak for themselves. However, it should be stated that these copies only give the costume and the figure of them, but that the artist has imaginated for them an extremely fresh and delicate color, which increases their grace and their charm with as much lightness as discretion and taste.
These two charming curios, quintessence of feminism and parisianism, kind of Parisian “Tanagra” of 1900th, can and must take a place in the most difficult collections, as in the most elegant and delicate interiors”

(the original text can be seen in the French version)