PAIR OF STATUTES in white onyx from Algeria... - Lot 85 - Kâ-Mondo

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PAIR OF STATUTES in white onyx from Algeria... - Lot 85 - Kâ-Mondo
PAIR OF STATUTES in white onyx from Algeria depicting Osiris-Antinous, flanked by his palm trunk, standing, carrying a tray. Italy, late 18th-early 19th century, a period which saw the great return of Egyptomania after the Egyptian campaign led by Bonaparte. Height excluding the base: 31 cm. Ancient restoration weakened at one of the legs, some small accidents. A notarised inventory of the provenance is attached. The historical provenance is the Château de la Malmaison, one of the mythical crucibles of the Napoleonic epic, marked by the very romantic and tragic love story between Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine de Beauharnais. The Empress Josephine de Beauharnais is said to have given these pieces to Monsieur Hecquart as a gift. They can be compared to the statuettes commissioned by Joachim Murat, now kept in the Musée de la Malmaison. Provenance: Estate of January 3, 1884 "Inventory after the death of Mr. Hecquart", "Study of Mr. Alfred Moreau, Notary in Paris, rue Vivienne, 53". Extract from the notarial deed: "To Madame la Baronne de Carondelet, my two Egyptian statuettes in white onyx which were part of the furniture of Empress Josephine at La Malmaison and which were given to me many years ago by Madame Veuve Root, mother of one of my good comrades from St Cyr and Staff College, Alos Root, who died before her death." Related works: Malmaison Museum, "Statuette, ancient Egyptian type", Inventory M.M.40.47.264 Victoria & Albert Museum, "Statuette in rosso antico, height 33 cm, Italian origin, circa 1800. Bequeathed by the 7th Duke of Wellington exhibited in Room 101" Inventory A.4-1974. Antinous (117-138 A.D.) Favourite of Emperor Hadrian, who after his death by drowning was made famous through the immense quantity of statues produced in homage to the deceased ephebe. He was represented in various forms all around the Mediterranean. Our subject is the Egyptian representation of Osiris-Antinous (recognizable by his headdress and the accompanying palm trunk). Napoleon ordered a fountain in his effigy on rue de Sèvres delivered in 1806, taking up the statue found in 1739 in the house of Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli, now kept in the Vatican Museum. This subject was so popular that it became one of the imperial symbols of Emperor Hadrian.
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