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Plaster representing helmeted neck brace.

Gipsoteca Di Milano The Fumagalli & Dossi gypsotheque has a long history. In 1927, when the famous Vallardi gypsotheque closed, two former craftsmen, Gariboldi and Bertolazzi, kept part of the vast collection, thus creating their own gallery. Since then, the workshop in Viale Montello 4 in Milan has gone through the years, passing from generation to generation. Today, Fumagalli & Dossi produces workshop plasters for art schools. Our cast comes from the first part of this story and is dated to the 1930s. A small lack at the base.

​​​​​​​Circa 1920/1930 Gyspothèque of Milan,
Italy

Height : 26,3 inch

Width: 10,6 inch

Depth : 11,8 inch

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Pair of large gilded wood candelabra

Provenance: personal collection of Juliette Greco. It existe a picture of artist in her interior, next to the flares.

Composed of 5 lights. Wood and gilded metal carved with foliage and acanthus leaves, four volute arms that illuminated Juliet's evenings.

Small accidents and losses
19th century
Italy

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Plaster bust of Antinoüs

Antinous is the favorite of Emperor Hadrian. In fact of his beauty, he drowned in the Nile under mysterious circumstances ... He was deified by the Egyptians who saw in the drowned people of the Nile the servants of Osiris. Hadrian founded Antinoupolis on the banks of the river and encouraged the new religion by multiplying the works of art celebrating the beauty of the young man.

The Greeks recognize in Antinous an avatar of Hermes and the Romans will present his worship to him, the last before the arrival of Christianity. The young man continues to personify the ideal beauty. The Fumagalli & Dossi Gypsothèque has a long history. In 1927, when the famous Vallardi gypsothèque was closed, two former craftsmen, Gariboldi and Bertolazzi, kept part of the vast collection, thus creating their own gallery. Since then, the Viale Montello 4 workshop in Milan has passed through the years, passing from generation to generation. Today, Fumagalli & Dossi produces workshop plasters for art schools. Our cast comes from the first part of this story and is dated to the 1930s.

Circa 1920/1930
Gypsothèque from Milan, Italy

Height: 70 cm (27,5 in)

Width: 55 cm (21,6 in)

Depth: 44 cm (17,2 in)

Our bust is a cast of the full-length bust of the Venus de Medici in the office Gallery in Florence.
circa 1900

Height: 69 cm (27,1 in)

Width: 43cm (16,9 in)

Depth: 21cm (8,2 in)

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Her abundant hair is made of long wavy locks, some of which are pulled back to the top of the forehead and tied, probably not to avoid the generosity in the action. This type of hairstyle is frequently found in Aphrodires in the bath or Artemis hunting.

The Apollo of the Belvedere was the subject of copies and replicas from the beginning of the 16th century. Gipsoteca Di Milano The Fumagalli & Dossi gypsothèque has a long history. In 1927, when the famous Vallardi gypsothèque was closed, two former artisans, Gariboldi and Bertolazzi, kept part of the vast collection, thus creating their own gallery.

Since then, the Viale Montello 4 workshop in Milan has passed through the years, passing from generation to generation. Today, Fumagalli & Dossi produces workshop plasters for art schools. Our cast comes from the first part of this story and is dated to the 1930s. Circa 1920/1930 Gyspothèque de Milan, Italy

Height: 177,8 inch

Depth : 91,44 inch 

Width: 139,7 inch 

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Monastery table
Walnut
Regional work, probably Valée de Rhône
Circa 1700
France

Height: 76 cm (29,9 in)

Width: 250 cm (98,4 in)

Depth: 90 cm (35,4 in)

Console en bois polychrome, à 4 pieds cambrés, à motifs de feuilles d'acanthe et de fleurs, patine faux marbre sur le plateau typique des meubles italiens.
XVIII siècle
Lucques, Italie

Height: 78 cm (36 in)

Width: 115 cm (45,2 in)

Depth: 53 cm (20,9 in)

Oil on canvas "Portrait of a young man", original frame.
In the 19th century, the attention of the artist, and therefore of the viewer, focused on the face, whose expression, gaze, smile or pout reveal the deep character of the model. The ornaments, the attributes and the decorations of the portraits of the 18th century lose importance, the formats find smaller dimensions and allow the gaze to focus on the central character of the painting, it is particularly remarkable in this portrait which shows above all, the interior being of the model, an "inhabited" man whose soul continues to question us. His feelings are still palpable and keep their mystery.

This man's ambivalence is particularly noticeable in his gaze, so vulnerable on one side, so piercing on the other. It is in this subtle way that the painter underlines the complexity of this man ... beware of the sleeping water!
Around 1830,
France

Height with frame: 48,5 cm (19,1 in); without frame: 31,5 cm (11,9 in)

Width with frame: 44,5 cm (17,5 in); without frame: 27,5 cm (10,8 in)

Miniature on ivory "Portrait of a young girl in a blue dress", under glass, oval view, stained wood frame. On the back: inscription: Mme Bantard June 9, 1839
Louis Philippe period,
France

Height: 12,5 cm (4,9 in)

Width: 11 cm (4,6 in)

Chandelier with 4 lights and 8 candles, cut crystal cup, carved and gilded wood, egret motifs on the upper part, crystal pendants, electrified to standards.
The "Lucca style", a mixture of the Empire and Tuscan style, owes its appearance to Elisa Bonaparte, Napoleon's little sister. Élisa ruled the Principality of Lucca and Piombino, created by Napoleon, between 1805 and 1814. In 1806, he attached the Duchy of Massa and the Marquisate of Carrara to the possessions of his sister. Napoleon defined her as the best of his ministers, before a clear deterioration in their relations from 1811. Élisa used the style and method of her brother in introducing French laws and institutions into the principality and reorganizing administrative, bureaucratic and judicial structures. She is the only sister of Napoleon to have possessed real political powers. Passionate about the arts, she encouraged them in the territories over which she reigned, her great influence is also found in the so-called Lucca furniture, always in great demand.
Circa 1820
Lucca, Italy

Height: 140 cm (55,1 in)

Diameter: 100 cm (39,3 in)

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Pair of children's portraits Alexander Bida.
This pair comes from the collection of Jean-Claude Brialy, strange coincides ... it was a great friend of Yveline. Jean-Claude Brialy is a French actor, director, screenwriter and writer, (1933-2007). Coming from the New Wave of French cinema, he has appeared in more than two hundred films and worked with the greatest directors: Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, François Truffault, or Eric Rohmer, Philippe de Broca ...

Orientalist painter, Alexandre Bida is a student of Eugène Delacroix. He exhibited at the Universal Exhibitions of 1855 and 1867, in 1867 he presented the drawing The Massacre of the Mamluks, evocation of the massacre of March 1, 1811 in Cairo, which is currently in the Louvre, Department of Graphic Arts. This pair of portraits is a private commission, unrelated to his work. The portrait of a child became a genre appreciated in Europe in the 16th century, it was during the Enlightenment that it developed in France. Small models are however still very often subject to the codes of the official portrait, showing them in their best educated light. The accentuated taste for more intimate representations at the end of the Ancien Régime, and the development of family feeling, thanks to the gradual decline in infant mortality, place the child at the center of the picture. From the 19th century, painters no longer sought to disguise it as an adult or a small picturesque subject, but sought its truth. The urban bourgeoisie, however, continues to strike a pose ... but Bida has captured the tender melancholy of one and the gentleness of our little girl.
XIX century,
France

Height: With frame: 59 cm (23,2 in); without frame: 45,5 cm (17,9 in)

Width: With frame: 51 cm (20,1 in): without frame: 37,5 cm (14,7 in)