Albert-ernest Carrier-belleuse (a. Rodin), The Abduction Of Hippodamia. Ca 1870 - Art Nouveau

Exceptional bronze with original patina, nuanced green (slight erosion on the back of the horse), which preserves the authenticity of the work. On its green marble column. Made during the artist's lifetime around 1875. Signed and titled "The Abduction" in a cartouche. This scene is inspired by a passage from Ovid's metamorphoses, in which the centaur Eurityon tries in vain to kidnap Hippodamia, the young wife of the King of the Lapiths, the peaceful people of Thessaly. It had previously been taken over by renowned painters like Rubens. This sculpture is documented for the first time in 1871 through its terracotta version. Auguste Rodin entered the workshop of Carrier Belleuse in 1864, as a practitioner until 1871. June Hargrove, demonstrated that the body of the centaur which undulates with a daring musculature is characteristic of Rodin's models, emits the idea that L ' Carrier-Belleuse's Abduction of Hippodamia may have been partly modeled by Auguste Rodin. Indeed, from 1864 to 1871, Rodin worked in the workshop of Carrier-Belleuse in Brussels and this model would have been designed at the end of his stay in Belgium. Indeed in the contrast between the voluptuousness of the naked female body and the hardness of the features of the centaur, one can distinguish the two approaches of the sculptors, the romanticism of Carrier-Belleuse, and the brute force of Rodin. The anatomical treatment of the main character is similar to the bruised men of the Vase of the Titans. This bronze is part of the collections of the National Gallery in Washington where it is presented with a possible participation of Auguste Rodin, then a student of Carrier-Belleuse. The green marble column bearing this bronze accentuates the power of this melee and the violence of the momentum that carries this group, the centaur Pyloüs rearing up with ardor to remove Hippodamie, who resists him, this sculpture illustrating an episode taken from 'Ovid. Bibliography: June Hargrove, The Life and Work of Albert Carrier-Belleuse, New York and London, 1977, pp. 257-8, illustrated pl. 244 P. Fusco and H. Janson, The Romantics to Rodin, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980, pp. 164-6, no. 50 Carrier-Belleuse, Le Maître de Rodin, exh. cat., Grand Palais de Compiègne, May 22-27, 2014, illustrated fig. 27. In the catalog Des Romantiques à Rodin by Fusco and Janson, published in 1980 by the Los Angeles county museum of art. Museums exhibiting (among others) works by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse: Paris, Musée d'Orsay Paris, Musée Delacroix Versailles, Château et Trianon Roubaix, La Piscine Musée des Arts et de l'Industrie Dijon, Musée Magnien

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