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Louis-Ernest Barrias

Nature Reveals Herself to Science

bronze

1893

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detail from Les Premières Funérailles, 1883 by Louis-Ernest Barrias

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The Mermaid by Louis-Ernest Barrias

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Nature Unveiling Itself to Science by Louis-Ernest Barrias, 1899

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

photo by Charles Reeza

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Statue by Louis Ernest Barrias, Orsay Museum, Paris, FRANCE

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Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905), tomb of Gustave Guillaumet, Montmartre Cemetery, Paris. Young girl from Bou Saâda dropping flowers onto a portrait of Guillaumet.

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Sbirciamo lo studio e l'artista al lavoro. Si tratta di Louis-Ernest Barrias scultore francese. Vinse il Prix de Rome per studio all'Accademia di Francia a Roma e fu coinvolto nella decorazione dell'Opéra di Parigi e dell'Hôtel de la Païva negli Champs-Élysées.

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Copy of a bronze statue of Mozart by Louis-Ernest Barrias

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model by Louis-Ernest Barrias, cast by Susse Frères

Nature revealing herself before science

circa 1900

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La Scultura del giorno: la Natura che si Svela alla Scienza di Barrias

La scultura del giorno che vi propongo oggi è La Natura che si Rivela alla Scienza, opera realizzata nel 1899 dallo scultore Louis Ernest Barrias. È un’opera allegorica in stile Art Nouveau e raffigura una donna che simboleggia la natura mentre si toglie il velo che le cela il volto e il seno per rivelarsi alla scienza. L’opera appartiene alle collezioni del Musée d’Orsay e fu commissionata per…

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Louis-Ernest Barrias (French, 1841-1905) The First Funeral (Adam and Eve Carrying the Body of Abel) (1878)

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The First Funeral - Louis Ernest Barrias

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Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905), La natura svelata davanti alla scienza - "La Nature se dévoilant", 1899, Musée d'Orsay, Parigi

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Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905) - La Nature se devoilant devant La Science (Nature revealing herself before Science)

Gilt bronze, marble, and lapis lazuli. Executed c.1905.

29 inches, 73.6 cm high. Estimate: US$30,000-50,000.

Sold Christie’s, New York, 15 Oct 2021 for US$68,750 incl B.P.

Cast by the Susses Frères foundry of Paris, it also replicated this version, in an earlier stage of her divestment, in various sizes, media combinations, and editions.

In Egyptology, the scarab beetle was seen as a symbol of renewal and rebirth. A scarab amulet was placed on the heart to protect it on the journey to the afterlife. The heart was the only organ to be left in the body when it was mummified, because it was believed that the heart stored the thoughts and memories of an individual needed in the hereafter.

There are other views of the statue available. If you copy the following into a new window it will bring up the image above:

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details from Les Premières Funérailles, 1883 by Louis-Ernest Barrias