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Sculpture of the late 19 th century.
Made under the order of the graph Khrapovitsky.
Imported from France.
A series of "Four Seasons", consists of 4 papers.
Height 170 cm Material - pink alabaster.
At the base mark of the author, not very clearly ... something like

"..... CRIE DE ....

GILARDON ...

OHOIS ...
CE - RO .. "


Need a writer, and evaluation.

Thanks in advance.

I do not get them mixed up?
This is the second similar theme.

Do not confuse)), light corrections in the text and photo, to know the actual size of sculpture ...

For
 

To the end of 19
pretty bad product. So let us from far away:
1) alabaster, as the material is fairly easy for the sculptor, is waiting for mutual return to the intricate plot or motive, and in consequence to the eminent creator not worth powder and shot, a more noble material and the same skills for the already "other" money.
2) about the sculpture itself as a whole has already said that the architect is not properly calculated the center of gravity, so had to carry out this incredible support.
3) the proportion of the Virgin herself (with the physiological side) was calculated incorrectly and must seem to put it mildly defective.
3) a person, too far, plus the work
On the basis of the foregoing, and the stigma
architect is not named
and the figure ordered as decoration park ensemble, alleys or roads, it can of course also for the house, but a graph is unpretentious, or any ...
Yes, the main highlight here in the graph and the time and it you still have documentary evidence

about this question?

price with respect to her she would waltz away from the buyer, someone to assess the seriousness of the scientist's eye and scrupulous husband (although this is unlikely to need it), but someone and deceive their self-esteem of stories about the graph
if all you are saying is true
then from 5000 $ this is a very rough initial auction price

Too lazy to look like drifts of things, but remember, it was less.
It has yet to restore the right.

heh heh

I too was not very comme il faut

Mr. Vorontsov, you're right, the composition of the 4 sculpture was commissioned for the park complex, after these statues decorated the facade of the theater in Vladimir, but reconstruction of the "near" the workers overthrew them from a height. One of the statues were saved by a miracle. The sculpture was covered with white paint in the color of the facade of the theater.

About Khrapovitsky
 

Vladimir S. Khrapovitsky (1858 - to 1927) retired from military service in 1892, in 1884-1887 after the partition of the sisters built a palace on his estate Selce Muromtseva (Sudogodskoye district, Vladimir province). There was 26,995 acres of land (mostly covered by forest), to generate income up to 100 thousand rubles a year.
In the years 1909-1917. was the province of Vladimir nobility, as well as an honorary member of Vladimir musical and dramatic society. Opened in his estate, a music school. After 1917, he emigrated to France where he died in poverty. He was married to Elizabeth Ivanovna Chiglokovoy (ca. 1850 - ca. 1927). Left "without any
funds for the very poor life, "68-year-old EI Khrapovitsky sent a letter to the French peasants, villagers with a request to collect money and send it to her, but in response received a flagrant-mocking letter from the" conscious "of Soviet citizens.

In Soviet times, the so-called "palace Khrapovitsky was Forest College, who went from there during the reconstruction. The structure offers to Vladimir-Suzdal Museum, but he refused, and the building is now in ruined condition. All landscape gardening
sculpture has disappeared, as well as bronze door handles multiple doors, oak paneling, and so on.

Photos of the estate and interior design were published in the book.: On the Murom road. - Vladimir: Posad, 1997. - (Province of the old card). Must warn you that this book was published "Autobiography" Khrapovitsky, which describes
palace, but which is - alas! - Do not document, but the fruit of imagination of the local writer A. Filinova.


For information about VA Khrapovitsky taken from the book.: Frolov, NV Marshals of the nobility of the Vladimir province. - Vladimir, 1995. - P.75-78.

Also note that Khrapovitsky not graphs, but simply a noble family.

Thanks for the correction, just everywhere talking about his castle, like a pro ratchet lock graph, he did not even thought about

very polznos