Emile Guillemin (1841-1907) Sublime Bas Relief In Bronze, Silver, Agate, Coral, Museum

Magnificent bas-relief painting certainly a commissioned piece, this bas-relief with a wooden frame, a gilded bronze rim, in the center a sublime and large bronze sculpture with silver ornaments, red corals, turquoises, tourmalines and agate. The bronze has many different patinas and the richly adorned headdress with many red corals gives it a really crazy look. It is a piece worthy of the greatest museums, a sure favorite, it was entrusted to a Brussels restoration specialist to refresh the bronze gilding of the border. Dimensions: 65cm x 58.5cm x 5.5cm deep Emile-Coriolan Guillemin said Emile Guillemin (1841-1907) is a Parisian sculptor. He did his artistic apprenticeship with his father Emile-Marie-Auguste Guillemin, then with the sculptor Jean-Jules Salmson. He began at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1870, with two plaster casts of Roman gladiators, the bronze prints of which were acquired by the State for the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Guillemin collaborates with major art publishers, such as Barbedienne or Christofle. Guillemin continued to exhibit at the Salon until the end of the 1890s. He notably exhibited there a series of bronze busts of oriental women. His busts are part of the Orientalist movement and therefore a particular context: Guillemin travels to North Africa and the Mediterranean basin in order to list the anthropological characteristics of the different local cultures, like Charles Cordier a few years earlier .