Cleopatra before Caesar, after Jean-Léon Gérôme
signed H. DUMAIGE
bronze on a rouge de France marble base
height of bronze 58.4cm.
base 33 by 22.2 by 7.6cm.

                    

Provenance                

Sotheby's New York, 3 November 2015, lot 51.
Then a Distinguished American Collection.

                    

Literature

P. Kjellberg, Bronzes of the 19th Century: Dictionary of Sculptors, London, 1994, p. 302.

                    

In the present sculpture, Dumaige depicts the pivotal moment from Jean-Leon Gérôme's 1866 painting Cléopatre et César, when Cléopatra is revealed to Caesar after her servant smuggled her into the palace wrapped in a carpet. Dumaige exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1863 to 1886, and he was a student of Augustin Alexandre Dumont and Jean-Jacques Feuchère.