Seated Nude with Cape

This rough-hewn study was made for a higly-important funerary sculpture -- Génie gardant les secrets de la tombe ("Genius Keeping the Secret of the Tomb") -- by renowned sculptor Rene de Saint-Marceaux, now exhibited at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. The daubs of clay show the sculptor's hand at work, and clearly he considered this study a fine work in its own right, deserving of a rendition in bronze, rather than plaster or terra cotta. Saint-Marceaux studied under Francois Jouffroy, and later gained many important patrons, including Baron de Rothschild (who commissioned him to sculpt several figures for his Chateau de Ferrieres), and the Dumas family, who asked him to sculpt the monument to Alexandre Dumas, the son, for Montmartre Cemetery in 1895. Rene and his wife Marguerite hosted one of the most important artist salons of the era, gathering together musicians such as Debussy and Ravel, and other luminaries such as Isadora Duncan and Colette. The bronze is signed and exhibits the Valsuani foundry mark (Paris).

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